The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.
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.
The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
To love a thing is to want it to live.
True patriots don't wave flags.
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for!
We drink one another's healths, and spoil our own.
Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
Investigators are always divided into those who are looking for rules and those who are looking for exceptions.
It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.
The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.
Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
The past can hurt. You can either run from it or learn from it.
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
Most open minds should be closed for repair.
A bureaucracy always tends to become a pedantocracy.
War is merely the continuation of policy by other means.
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it.
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.
What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
Sudden love takes the longest time to be cured.
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.
A person is only as big as the things that make them angry.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
The best number for a dinner party is two - myself and a dam' good head waiter.
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
The things we remember best are those better forgotten.
Love is complete and utter surrender.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.
Living is not breathing but doing.
I'll tell you a great secret, my friend. Don't wait for the last judgement. It happens every day.
