Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors.

The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.

The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes a Titus or Marc Aurelius; the people is often Nero, but never Marc Aurelius.

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy.

Opinions, theories, and systems pass by turns over the grindstone of time, which at first gives them brilliancy and sharpness, but finally wears them out.

The hardest thing to do in the world is overcome the mind but it just so happens that it's also the most rewarding.

Words only reveal half of your heart. Service defines the other half. Character is the combination of the two.

Tastes like something that rhymes with cat." -Apollon

Until you can intelligently articulate the other side's position, you are not an adult. You are a liberal.

None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.

Hormones are very powerful things. We are helpless in their wake.

I'm definitely someone who enjoys life and wakes up with a ball of energy.

Iambics march from short to long;-- With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng

Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground Mother earth will swallow you Lay your body down.

I think Apple's revenge is just the fact that Windows, you know, PCs all became Macintoshes in a way.