Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem: There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground But holds some joy of silence or of sound, Some spirits begotten of a summer dream.

Social and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity .

As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not.

Man will take anything you like, except warning.

What if two negatives make an affirmative ...does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body?

It seems to me that, with but slight reserve and modification, we may apply to our departed friend his own pathetic and beautiful elegy upon another.

How often does it happen that an obscure line finds its way into a periodical... is requoted in every book that comes out during the next three months, and "sleeps again!

Shall we not rejoice then and revel in the glorious liberty of extract, and quote to the thousandth line? Shall we not have pages like the Pyramids?

When the error is universal, it is supposed to end. The adoption of the foundling establishes its consanguinity.

Everybody's word is worth Nobody's taking.

It is an odd mode of diminishing one's own weakness to ask a friend to lend us the equal force of his.

We can show love, respect for others, and honesty in whatever we do to help humanity.

No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with which the world is filled.

Embrace yourself, in these times, and acknowledge yourself for the extraordinary progress you are making, as a soul, in every waking moment.

I think there's even a chance that [R&D and innovation budgets] might be increased [during Donald Trump Administration] and we should go and make that case to the executive branch, to the Congress.

Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.

Thinking in pictures precedes thinking in words.

When you’re not patient, you start complaining. And the fact that you’re complaining is a sign that you’re not grateful.

We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats.