There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

I see more light than dark, but when I encounter dark I seem to get lost in it.

Life's only as bad as you make it out to be. It's go nothing to do with the way it is.

French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation; my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.

Because of styles people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.

There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

Remember, Those who have the gift of faith are growth-oriented, goal-oriented, optimistic, and confident. – C. Peter Wagner.

Have fun do good and the money will come

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

You know you are going to go through your ups and downs in this game.

A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be hated.