Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.

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.

I’ve been firmly grounded in reality since I was a child, and I’m still waiting for it to impress me.

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.

I taught high school students Spanish.

We kissed for about the thousandth time, No promises, no demands, Just solid rebuilding of shattered trust.

There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.

I want to live in light of eternity. I want to do now what I'll be glad I did then.

No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

I've got a wallet, it's orange. In case I wanna buy a deer. That doesn't make any sense at all.

The universe and the light of the stars come through me.