I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

In her head is warAll the time just warI put her to bedI bring peace to the world

It is often the simple daily practices that influence our lives in dramatic ways.

Don't rely on good principles to sell an inferior product.

I'm not funny. What I am is brave.

If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.

[The unreactivity of the noble gas elements] belongs to the surest of experimental results.

They must understand that – Elrond and the Council, and the great Lords and Ladies with all their wisdom. Their plans have gone wrong. I can't be their Ring-bearer. Not without Mr. Frodo.

I don't really go through a process, it goes through me.

The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book.

I like fantasy. I've always been the kind of kid who likes to dream about other things I could be and exotic situations I could be in.