Originally consists in thinking for yourself, and not in thinking unlike other people.

Thus hope, aided by imagination, makes one man a hero, another a somnambulist, and a third a lunatic; while it renders them all enthusiasts.

To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack.

Not only are the varieties of morality innumerable, but some of them are conflicting with each other.

The things which cannot be adequately represented by words are more important than those which can.

Wisdom may be the ultimate arbiter, but is seldom the immediate agent in human affairs.

Persuasion, indeed, is a kind of force. It consists in showing a person the consequences of his actions. It is, in a word, force applied through the mind.

A liberal conservative is a man who thinks things ought to progress but would rather they remained as they are.

Power and courtly influence form an intoxicating draught even when raised to the lips of an ascetic and a saint.

Maybe I should love someone mundane and let them bore me to death.

A song rises up from the belly of my pastand rocks me in the bosom of buried memories.

Practice honest self believe to learn and to better yourself.

It is beautiful in a picture to wash the disciples’ feet

The most unbearable thing about many successful people is not - as we flatteringly think - how lazy they are, but how hard they work.

In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty.

If you have spent two years in bed trying to wiggle your big toe, everything else seems easy.

Success may result in winning, but winning does not necessarily mean you are a success.

Do lifelong artists pay a price for having chosen to make art? Of course. Everyone pays the price for his or her choices.

She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.