Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.

History has a way of chasing gravity just like water, feeding into other parts of itself to become something else, something larger and grander, until the one pure thing it was no longer exists.

Look deeply at yourself, and see in yourself the divine architect's incomprehensible art!

It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there.

Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness.

From talk radio to insult radio wasn't really that much of a leap.

It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education.

A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.

Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.

The sudden hand of Death close up mine eye!