Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

Money can be replaced anytime, but lost time can never be reclaimed.

Emotions serve as our guiding system. They tell us what we feel about something. This indicates the degree of alignment with the source's energy.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

Confidence is something you acquire in yourself by believing in self ability with courage and conviction.

Be kind to everyone; forgive everyone everything.

To be able to see the flaws in your own work is a gift.

[John] McCarthy's regime was ended by Senators who realized that he had gone too far. What we have now may be more insidious.

I have for many years been puzzled by the persistence of Hugh Hefner. Why is he still here?

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.

But our gusty emotions say to me that we have / Tasted heaven many times: these delicacies / Are left over from some larger party.