Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.

In a major matter no details are small.

Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.

Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.

A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.

Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns.

Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue.

It's easier to fight one's enemies than to get on with one's friends.

When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable.

Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.

It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them stingthat I discovered I was crying.

Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.

To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.

Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.

Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.

I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing.

If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.