You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Snobbery might sometimes look cool, like smoking, but the end result is usually a repelling one.

The only other white people we saw during the three days we stayed there were a German couple intent on taking pictures of their stuffed sheep in a variety of locations around the world.

Music is the harmonious voice of creation an echo of the invisible world.

If you cross a pickle with a female deer...You get a dill-doe!

Once a thing is known,it can't be UNknown.

If you live far away from a person you no longer want to date just let them know that they are geographically undesirable.

Profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity.

We must take root; send out some little fibre at least, even every winter day.

Find someone who will tremble for your touch, someone whose fingers are a poem.

"And we'll call you... hmmm. Pudge." "Huh?" "Pudge," the Colonel said. "Because you're skinny. It's called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let's go get some cigarettes and start this year off right."