Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.

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.

Think in a new way, think every day to find the truth.

What right does any church have even attempting to approve of lifestyles or certain acts for which God prescribed the death penalty in the Old Testament?

The heart is heaviest when it’s emptyand lightest when it’s full

...when I chose you, I didn't want the commonplace - I didn't want a 'partner' - I wanted a shrine...

I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.

I was raised to pursue my passions and pursue the things that I love, and to just live life to the fullest.

To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

The Norfolk landscape sends a shiver through my soul.