Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.

Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

Most people don't accept that they are an influence either improving or damaging others.

Thank Fate for foes! I hold mine dear As valued friends. He cannot know The zest of life who runneth here His earthly race without a foe.

No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.

If you take away 'Schindler's List' and 'Saving Private Ryan', I like 'Minority Report' a lot.

"I would like to apologize" may sound like an apology, but it is no more an actual apology than saying "I would like to lose weight" makes you suddenly slimmer.

If bliss is to scratch an itch, what greater bliss, no itch at all? So too, the worldly, desirous, find some bliss, But greatest is the bliss with no desire

One should never underestimate the power of books.

Mathematics is not a language, it's an adventure

Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen!

Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.