No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at their command for the occasion.

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.

Character depends on characters. Few people are character. Other's should try to opt one but they don't, they lose.

Admit you’re jealous, Emma.” “Never, ” she said defiantly. “Just your nipples then. They’re pouting.

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night

If you want to be true to life, start lying about it

I don't like discussing cricket off the field.

I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.

Our brain is continuously being shaped - we can take more responsibility for our own brain by cultivating positive influences.

But I would rather be with you, somewhere in San Francisco on a back porch in July, just looking up to Heaven, at this crescent in the sky

Children are receptive to talking about gender creativity, confirming the importance of the book as a means to instigate this dialogue at an early age.