We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

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.

When the women begin to take an active part in the struggle, no power on earth can stop us from achieving freedom in our lifetime.

But in his duty prompt at every call He watch'd and wept he pray'd and felt for all.

You’re the missing piece I need The song inside of me I need to find you I gotta find you

Contented children are valuable, as is the peace that surrounds them.

Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.

Wherever my work may take me in the near future even if you should see me one day within the fortress - you can always count on me as your reliable assistant.

Keep your drunken electrons dancing!

They call me the trippy king.

Being a better songwriter, that's top of the list because I think that is a very intimidating, difficult task. I really admire people that just continue to write and get stronger.

I realize that as I get more experience as I get older, my perception changes and that feeds the photograph.