We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

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.

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

Miles and miles of smiles illustrated by the gratitude that creates them

There can be no greater act of kindness than to help others when your own world has been destroyed.

But I also think it's about a person's personality that draws people in, too, not just their singing.

Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.

Hip-hop is just something I actually know how to do. But I always had aspirations to participate in other forms of music.

I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else. I know that makes me a sap.

When I was just a little young boy, Papa said Son, you'll never get far, I'll tell you the reason if you want to know, 'cause child of mine, there isn't really very far to go.

Hey, get a nice shot of the brand-new Mr. and Mrs. Hunter Hearst Helmsley!

Great expectations are placed on this generation for the establishment of peaceful and neighborly relations in the North Caucasus.