The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.

The powers of a man's mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank.

Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.

Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.

The frivolous work of polished idleness.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

Whatever is popular deserves attention.

A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.

Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.

It is right to be content with what we have, never with what we are.

Those who differ most from the opinions of their fellow men are the most confident of the truth of their own.

The Human Being, as we imagine it, does not exist.

Get in the habit of visualizing yourself standing at the victory line of your dream, but at the same time, be sure to accompany your positive imagination with consistent actions.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

The verdict of the Greek people renders the troika a thing of the past for our common European framework.

Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.

They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won't do a better job of it.

Trust that your soul has a plan, and even if you can't see it completely, know that everything will unfold as it is meant to.

To be "here and now," in principle, is just for once. And then you have to repeat that.

I think Australians do well here because we feel a bit naughty, like we're in America and if they only knew how much fun we were having, we'd all get thrown out, you know.

You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.