There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.

Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it comes out a noble medicine, or a rank poison.

Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility.

The cheat ambition, eager to espouse dominion, courts it with a lying show, and shines in borrowed pomp to serve a turn.

Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself.

The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, Nature.

Nothing is so firmly than that which is least known.

Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.

An obligation is something which constrains or induces us to act.

It is unusual, ” said Cristina, “for a revolution to call for fewer rights for people, not more.

What's done to children they will do to society.

But what minutes! Count them by sensation and not by calendars and each moment is a day.

Art is like singing. Some do it better than others, but everyone can and should be doing it for their soul.

Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.

Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares!

Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in ourselves, to make his spirit, his devotion, his affections, his desire, and his disposition live and reign there.

I live with romance in my brain. I'm a true-blue Cancerian like that.

All along, American policy has been, 'We don't establish a Kurdistan.

Children who are readers will develop acceptable levels of literacy.