Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

Every time a champion makes a decision they have a chance to learn something new, regardless of the outcome.

In the modern world we are surrounded by so much abundance that we cannot see it.

If a man hasn’t found something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

It's easy to say young people should believe in themselves, but the number one thing is recognizing that it's a journey, that you have to build confidence in yourself.

Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming.

This is the time to remember cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold onto cause we won't although we'll want to.

Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man.

Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.

I'm a guy who never wanted to hold a steady job, because I was worried about the monotony.