The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

If you don’t know your maker, chances are that you will never know yourself. If you don’t know yourself, you will bury your meals and complain of poverty!

Life is a sea of sorrow in the midst of islands of happiness.

Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.

I don't feel like I have to be the nice girl.

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.

At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendencies and likings.

The internet is the most underutilized advertising medium that's out there.

When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.