Servants honor their master by their service.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

The world hasn't changed that much

The most important gifts we can give our children are confidence in their ability to remake themselves again and again and the tools with which to do that job

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it'd be a travesty.

Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.

The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.

Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.

In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgement on the few.

Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.

Snowfall is expected to considerably exceed the normal range, both in frequency and quantity.