The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A good book is an event in my life.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

Love everyone because everyone is your kin and this universe is your home.

Music, oh, how faint, how weak, Language fades before thy spell!Why should Feeling ever speak, When thou canst breathe her soul so well?

In God alone, essence (what He is) and existence (that he is) coincide.

A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!

Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of being written.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

If you feel like you've ‘made it,’ and you're completely satisfied, you have bigger problems.

Content, it dreams awake, and spins the fabric of tales. There is really nothing to be done with such imagery except to use it: in writing, in art.

A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable.

Man is really free, the real man cannot but be free.