Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.

We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours.

Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true.

Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again.

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?

The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.

People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.

Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.

A man with outward courage dares to die

You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.

Contrology is complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit.

There is more hope in a heather rose than in all the tons of Teutonic philosophy.

God, it was good. Comforting and stimulating at the same time. Absolute world-class pheromones. I wished I could take his jacket home with me. Not him, just the jacket.

The thing with me is, I'm from a rap background so I'm not really a traditional singer in that sense.

He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up

I don't think anything predated Christians.

Jesus experienced homelessness at Christmas so that we could experience a love we could never lose.

If you want to know what's Real, of love, of life, of loyalty, put it through the greatest test: Time.