It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

People who have so much of their personality invested in the Internet can’t really survive as whole individuals without it.

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

Why "revere" the unknowable? Why not find out what it is?

I prefer to be left alone with my books.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

Without being legalistic, we should be careful and wise in all decisions we make.

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

I'm not above anybody. I'm, I'm not better than anybody. I am made of the same material that everybody else is and if somebody can be a saint, so can I and if somebody can be a torturer, so can I.

Flattery is an ensnaring quality, and leaves a very dangerous impression. It swells a man's imagination, entertains his vanity, and drives him to a doting upon his own person.

You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.