The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.

Die gefährlichste Weltanschauung ist die Weltanschauung derer, die die Welt nie angeschaut haben. (The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world)

People often say that I'm curious about too many things at once... But can you really forbid a man from harbouring a desire to know and embrace everything that surrounds him?

Before being free, it is necessary to be just

There are some races more cultured and advanced and ennobled by education than others; but there are no races nobler than others. All are equally destined for freedom.

Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others.

At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa bean.

Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.

Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people.

Statistical projections which speak to the senses without fatiguing the mind, possess the advantage of fixing the attention on a great number of important facts.

Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all volcanic action lie.

Let her go, ” Brendan said, and Will did. And that was the biggest mistake of his life. Letting her go.

The road to greatness is often sought, but if journeyed with kindness, it is sweetly paved.

I have six different careers, each one of which I was successful in. I was a successful person in life because I helped everybody, because I did not do anything wrong.

A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.

I'd already put on a bit of weight before I got pregnant.

To no kind of begging are people so averse, as to begging pardon; that is, when there is any serious ground for doing so.

Tis better to hit an air ball, than to force a note that don't wanna come out.

It [the Brady Bill] is not a panacea. It's not going to stop crimes of passion or drug-related crime.

Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.

I think of hip hop as a mass media, radio, MTV thing. It’s been extremely relevant over the last 10 years and rock music is just not anymore—-a tear rolls down my cheek as I say that.