What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.

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.

Since the world is ending, ” Peter quoted from behind us, “why not let the children touch the paintings?

The arc of your swing doesn't have a thing to do with the size of your heart.

I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.

I'm going to go do this crazy thing. I'm going to start this company selling books online.

Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.

I followed my heart and figured that if I tried and failed, at least Id know that I tried.

We would never get away from it. ... It's bad enough as it is, but with the wireless telephone one could be called up at the opera, in church, in our beds. Where could one be free from interruption?

Conor held tightly onto his mother. And by doing so, he could finally let her go.

Most of us, when asked to gauge the richness of our lives, think immediately of people. Those who have cried with us, laughed with us, and shaped who we are.