It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

I am not the best :( but try to understand, this world is samll to swallow my thoughts :'), you let me free and find my world :'D

Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time.

There are a couple of times I would've liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.

People express their feelings through crying or anger. We, Big Bang, express it through music.

I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov'd?

The demand that we love our neighbor as ourselves contains as an axiom the demand that we shall love ourselves, shall accept ourselves as we were created.

Repentance is simply giving up to stop fighting against God and to stop attempting to gain your own salvation through your own works; to literally give up and fall upon Christ. That is salvation.

I was raised in Washington, DC in a household where one parent was a Republican and the other was a Democrat, so I got both sides.

Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?