You say I'm small? I certainly can relate, although it is a matter of perspective. The distance is deceptive, my friend, you standtoo low.

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.

It was as if the rare joy that had formed in my heart was replaced by a pale shadow threatening to engulf me at that very moment. Victory didn’t matter now. She did!

What is reading but silent conversation?

I am a monster because I have too much of something.

It's true that the Federal Reserve faces a lot of political pressure and is unpopular in many circles.

Let us praise even the slightest improvement. That inspires the other person to keep on improving.

A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room".

Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark

In order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it.

The nearer we are to God, the less we will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from God, the more will long faces come. The more we know God, the more misery vanishes.