The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.
The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Age appears to be best in four things - old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
True patriots don't wave flags.
The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.
Investigators are always divided into those who are looking for rules and those who are looking for exceptions.
We drink one another's healths, and spoil our own.
To love a thing is to want it to live.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for!
Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
The past can hurt. You can either run from it or learn from it.
Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it.
Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
War is merely the continuation of policy by other means.
A bureaucracy always tends to become a pedantocracy.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not any man's greed.
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
Most open minds should be closed for repair.
I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
In their first passion, women love their lovers; in all the others, they love love.
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
Living is not breathing but doing.
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.
A person is only as big as the things that make them angry.
Love is complete and utter surrender.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
The things we remember best are those better forgotten.
The best number for a dinner party is two - myself and a dam' good head waiter.
I'll tell you a great secret, my friend. Don't wait for the last judgement. It happens every day.
Sudden love takes the longest time to be cured.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
