I would really like, in fact, to be born again in another two hundred years' time.

Bullies, oppressors and all men who do violence to the rights of others are guilty not only of their own crimes, but also of the corruption they bring into the hearts of their victims.

Music does not express any idea, but it gives rise to thousands.

Certainly the heart has always something to tell about the future to those who listen to it. But what does the heart know? Scarce a little of what has already happened.

When a friend, then, indulges in the joy unburdening a secret on to another friend's bosom, he makes the latter, in his turn, feel the urge to taste the same joy himself.

One the advantages about this life is that you can hate someone without knowing him

A benefit of friendship is knowing whom to tell secrets to.

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

That's immediately how I gauge how healthy a city is-by the amount of tags. It's just in direct competition with advertising. It's still one of the last things that hasn't been corrupted.

Kids don't learn the fundamentals of baseball at the games anymore.

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

To write is a humiliation.

Literary people are forever judging the quality of the mind by the turn of expression.

I'm much more comfortable singing than talking.

The northern people are riders and the southern people sailors; it is said quite true.

When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned.

The only true failure is failure to try.