How few our real wants and how vast our imaginary ones!

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?

You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.

Sensibility is the power of woman.

It is not how much we have but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.

So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.

I hope we can all agree that, instead of continuing to subsidize yesterday's energy sources. We need to invest in tomorrow's.

If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.

Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time they were covered by waters which did not sustain any life.

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.

Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book.

Knowledge without transformation is not wisdom.

Golf will grow so long as it’s fun.

A stand-up comedian will never be the life of a party. Instead, he will be the guy who is standing at a corner and observing people.