Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.

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.

Holiness in the purest form is independent of all textual doctrines, all churches and all institutions.

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

We all need to go out of our minds at least once a day. When we go out of our minds we quickly come to our senses.

During high school I worked in a retirement home. I spent many wonderful hours hearing from service men and their widows about WWI.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

Music is something I really have a need to do - I don't seem to be able to stop

Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.

First name: Mister; middle name: period; last name T.

If your Lord Supreme requests you to do something, rest assured he has already given you the capacity - even more than necessary - long before you actually need it.

Some people think it's wrong, being single isn't right. But if you hurt the right person, you'll be wrong all your life.