Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

Even when we do not actively participate in our destiny, we are still on a chosen path. Life has a way of making decisions for us.

The destination lies in the dream.

You cannot replay time.

Emma, Emma, Emma, " I said, wishing I could somehow teach her to take the smaller blows of life in her stride.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

Chemical synthesis is uniquely positioned at the heart of chemistry, the central science, and its impact on our lives and society is all pervasive.

Nothing is quite so emotional and passionate as what goes on inside of a family. People are driven to distraction by a father or a mother or a husband. Or a child.

Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.

My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

I love to see Favre playing his best football, and if his mind his right, he'll probably have a fine season.