Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

Love was never a mistake, even when it wasn't returned.

If you hate a person you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

I got an extra hour's nap.

Marilyn Manson is simply too dangerous for Darien Lake.

Each human being has the right to seek out joy, joy being understood as something which makes one content - not necessarily that which makes others content.

Work is a form of nervousness.

It's nice to have a great female composer in the program and add her color.

Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.

France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits the tread of a man's foot.