One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning.

The best is the enemy of good.

Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)

It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.

What is tolerance? It is a necessary consequence of humanity. We are all fallible, let us then pardon each other's follies. This is the first principle of natural right.

Imitation is suicide.

Actually, " said Jace, "I prefer to think that I'm a liar in a way that's uniquely my own.

Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence.

I know you feel inhuman, and as if you are set apart, away from life and love, but... I promise you, the right man won't care.

I haven't given up on acting, but I've gone away from it for a while to concentrate on myself and the fans of 'Star Wars.'

I've had plenty of negative reviews. I have my entire life.

Never apologize for being nerdy.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era.

A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.