Schools are made for the average. The holes are all round, and whatever shape the pegs are they must wedge in somehow. One hasn't time to bother about anything but the average.

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.

It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.

Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.

Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant.

I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

Why did you look at the sunset?'Philip answered with his mouth full:Because I was happy.

You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.

I believe my success is what I'm going to achieve today and tomorrow not what I did yesterday.

When something flipping out to the worse, don't feel bad. But be strong and make yourself hard so that the situations stop taking chance to hurt you.

I shall be an autocrat that's my trade and the good Lord will forgive me that's his.

Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope.

Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.

There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.

you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

We need to discuss the basis of a new form of trust built on a meaningful form of citizenship appropriate for a republic.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect.

The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.