The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

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.

You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.

We waste this life dreaming of another.

Between now and then, 'til I see you again, I'll be loving you.

It certainly strikes the beholder with astonishment, to perceive what vast difficulties can be overcome by the pigmy arms of little mortal man, aided by science and directed by superior skill.

Servitude, in many cases, is not forced upon by the masters, but a temptation of the servants.

If you know nothing, be pleased to know nothing.

You have to speak your mind, but without being cruel.

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

The pressure of the [election] campaign has a wonderful way of revealing your strengths and weaknesses.

Look at us human beings: it's so much easier to be right than to love.