Every historian discloses a new horizon.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

Some of the most memorable paths I've taken have been detours.

Mysticism and supernaturalism are the descendants of ignorance and fear.

What must not be read must not be written.

Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.

Anyone willing to give up liberty in exchange for security deserves neither.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

Kisses are like grains of gold or silver found upon the ground, of no value themselves, but precious as showing that a mine is near.

I love feeling like I have purpose and maybe that's the purpose I'm giving myself.

The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.

We find it difficult to comprehend, and we deeply regret the decision as it is discriminatory in the sense that it targeted certain countries without a clear reason.