The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

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.

All the men I know add that “hands that prepared it” line. They must know it’s right complimentary, an incentive to keep the women cooking.

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

I personally think Prague is more romantic than Paris. If you have a girlfriend, take her there.

If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.

The devil is so subtle that he dominates man and persuades him at the same time that he is not being dominated.

we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.

I went from trying to get people just to listen to my music, not necessarily knowing me, to this. I didn't want to be known, because I didn't want to be Fetty Wap... Me, I'm just a background guy.

We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

I appeal to the Youth and those on the ground: start talking to each other across divisions of race and political organizations.