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.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for!
To love a thing is to want it to live.
The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.
True patriots don't wave flags.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
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.
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.
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
War is merely the continuation of policy by other means.
A bureaucracy always tends to become a pedantocracy.
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.
A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it.
Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Most open minds should be closed for repair.
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?
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.
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
In their first passion, women love their lovers; in all the others, they love love.
If women were good, God would have one.
Living is not breathing but doing.
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
A person is only as big as the things that make them angry.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
I'll tell you a great secret, my friend. Don't wait for the last judgement. It happens every day.
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.
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.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Love is complete and utter surrender.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
