It is a remarkable circumstance in reference to cunning persons that they are often deficient not only in comprehensive, far-sighted wisdom, but even in prudent, cautious circumspection.

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

Reflections...passages in time..sometimes, the only things that make sense..the only peace I find..is found somewhere, unwritten..in between the lines.

We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

Any work you do, do it the best you can and achieve the maximum result.

I don't think I'm bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

We rarely ever perceive others as being sensible, except for those who agree with us.

Look, it's terrible, I know, but weakness really, really bugs me, to the point that if there is a wounded bird on the sidewalk, I look at it and I go: I think I'll just kick it.

Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.

A president cannot make decision on what someone might know in the future.

Vive les peuples, Vive la Republique! Vive la France!

The more materiality there is, the less humanity there is