It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Death might be a blessing if it means you never have to face this kind of grief.

There's an intuition learned through our work. Teaching others doesn't mean they can just go out and replicate it.

In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.

A right knowledge of sin lies at the root of all saving Christianity.

Romanticism is beauty without bounds-the beautiful infinite.

I hate going out in Brighton now. It's different in London. People respect you more there.

Whoever does not fight the one who despises him, neither in word not in thought, has received true knowledge and demonstrates a firm trust in God.

We can't want an education for kids more than they want it for themselves.

Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.