We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.

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.

Those who say they don't have the time to take care of their skin, will sooner or later have to find the time for corrective treatments.

I would prefer to try and fail than to not try at all.

Could you please stop dripping your sarcasm all over my car’s interior?

Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.

If they don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.

It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy in combat.

Celebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the Great Unwashed.

Collaborating with someone who doesn't understand your language nor you theirs stretches you open even wider, into a sort of very large free fall.

I can't remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do.

I don't run away from the idea of philosophy as seductive. I want the sentences to be prose but intense prose, to show that, like life, thinking is not linear.