There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

Some stories, some visions, demand celluloid film and what it can deliver.

A man doesn't need a study to know if he's feeling amorous. There is no such thing as a placebo erection.

I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.

A moral person is someone who accepts the consequences of their own morality, not those of others.

Less effort in this game makes more results.

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.

Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.

I believe in trusting. Trust begets trust. Suspicion is foetid and only stinks. He who trusts has never yet lost in the world.

But I know that I'm not who I was supposed to be. Who I could have been. And I know it's because I was too afraid for too long.

Once you develop the practice of smiling, you may not need a reminder. You will smile as soon as you hear a bird singing or see the sunlight streaming through the window.