Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

I love you. That never changed eversince that day you walked right in front of me.

Civilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us.

People are demanding so much of me. They really want to pigeonhole me.

If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.

Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to - to balance the family ticket.

From the moment we wake up each morning to the time we hit the pillow at night, we hear what people have to say, but are we really listening?

We need an opposition to remind us if we are making mistakes. When you are not opposed you think everything you do is right.

A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.

The family that prays together stays together, and if they stay together they will love one another as God has loved each one of them. And works of love are always works of peace.

Mother would come and pick me up at work and take me wherever I could get a job. Mother didn't trust anybody with me. Usually we'd get home at 3 in the morning.