To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

The BEST revenge is to be fabulous.

sometimes it's better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn't know

Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

The world's 'freeest' country has the highest number in prison.

Set yourself the bolder course. Keep your heart an open shrine.

That Obama I would like to cut his nuts off.

I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.

Feel good about linking hands in human chain for good causes.

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

What, gone without a word? Ay, so true love should do; it cannot speak, For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.