I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.

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.

The reaper does not listen to the harvest.

Your obstacles are always counting on you to be fearful and doubtful because those are their only chances of defeating you.

You can always try another approach

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.

Investors should start with a view of skepticism. They should become intellectual investors rather than emotional investors. They should be careful, and they should be skeptical.

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.

We are each others angels in the way that we answer each others prayers and we can also make each others lives miserable.

It's the Devil's way now, There is no way out, You can scream and you can shout, It is too late now.