Je hay entre autres vices, cruellement la cruauté, et par nature et par jugement, comme l'extreme de tous les vices.

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

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

Why do people respect the package rather than the man?

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

The thing I fear most is fear.

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.

The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.

A candle is at its brightest in the dark.

Material blessings fade and deteriorate, but your riches in Christ are everlasting.

Become strong again in spirit, strong in will, strong in endurance, strong to bear all sacrifices

Analysis takes back with one hand what it gives with the other. I recoil in fear and loathing from that deplorable evil: continuous functions with no derivatives.

That's one thing I get neurotic about: I need my soup to be crazy hot.

They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything.

No soul can be forever banned, Eternally bereft, Whoever falls from God's right hand Is caught into his left.

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Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.