To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

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.

Senses disabled by fear.

Sometimes coping with the difficulties success brings is much more difficult than coping with the difficulties failure brings!

Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.

Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras.

Hillary Rodham Clinton was America's chief diplomat. So let's look around at the violence and danger in our world today in every region of the world that has been infected with her flawed judgment.

Africa is an extraordinary opportunity at the moment

You have to be odd to be number one.

Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.

After a lifetime of swimming upstream, I am convinced that one of the real secrets to Wal-mart's phenomenal success has been that very tendency.

It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.