I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer great misfortunes than to do great things.

Esteem has more engaging charms than friendship, or even love. It captivates hearts better, and never makes ings.

Misers are very kind people: they amass wealth for those who wish their death.

Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?

To believe with certainty, we must begin with doubting.

We are usually mistaken in esteeming men too much; rarely in esteeming them too little.

Gaiety is the soul's health; sadness is its poison.

How many persons fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old!

Genius speaks only to genius.

Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes us as a judge.

There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.

It is a fact that one man can be deliriously happy in the exact situation that causes another man to wither from depression.

You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

If there be music in my reader, I would gladly wake it.

An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation.

An eye critically nice can only be formed by observing well-colored pictures with attention.

Eventually I went back to high school. I went to a coaching center in my neighborhood. I had to leave the homeless situation because it was so bad and I knew that I was falling deeper and deeper.

The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.

If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events.