Remarkable places are like the summits of rocks; eagles and reptiles only can get there.

Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths.

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

Make your best thoughts into action.

Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.

For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.

Fortune does not change [people], it unmasks them.

Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.

A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.

One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.

It is never permissible to say, I say.

Perhaps he was probing the enigma of why men fall in love with their dreams, which are then so destroyed by harsh realities that their dreamers become cuckolded by their own illusions. Perhaps...

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Your identity doesn't come from your address.

The key of life symbolizes the map of existence. Once you free yourself from all resistance, your path will become white for the remainder of the distance.

To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!

The stars in the sky will hang there till You tell them to.

Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver!

We arc the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God.

NATO's got a vital role to play. It's very important that we protect NATO.

Love is hard to find, but love is one of a kind.