We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

Action is the mother of creation.

The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.

Germany's strength lies largely in the fact that the Federal Republic is a center of industry and that it's an export nation.

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

Nothing is indeed "true."

Those proud of keeping an orderly desk never know the thrill of finding something that they thought irretrievably lost.

Bushido is all very well in its way, but it is no match for a 30-06.

Throughout history, the technology always comes first. It's just technology for a while, until the day we artists inherit it.

By using power, money, fraud, the enemy is interested in gaining control over the world of Islam.