If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.

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.

Politics exists in every organization, We can not deny

Adlai Stevenson - a Henry James character in a Reader's Digest world.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Spiritual light rarely comes to those who merely sit in the darkness waiting for someone to flick the switch.

I know. You know I know. I know you know I know. We know Henry knows and Henry knows we know it. We're a knowledgeable family.

People like head trauma. They love knockouts. The crowd is silent, silent, silent... and then a knockout happens, and everyone goes native. There would be far fewer knockouts without the gloves.

Apparently the Republican base got radicalized first, and Democrats picked up the ball later. Or something.

Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.

It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.

Can a nation remain healthy, can all nations draw together in a world whose brightest stars are film stars?