The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

Pour, varlet, pour the waterThe water steaming hot!A spoonful for each man of usAnother for the pot!

His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run though not to soar.

The highest intellects like the tops of mountains are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.

Though mountains melt and oceans burn, The gifts of love shall still return.

All great people had critics, but they still believe in beauty of their dreams.

Kill a politician and you're tied to the motive that made you pull the trigger.

It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat of the French forces engaged in the battle.

-Nunca dejaría de creer en ti -dijo-. Jamás. Lo que siento por ti...-Se atracó-. Es lo más grande que he sentido en mi vida. [pp.78]

Wear perfume wherever you want to be kissed!

The human body is amazing," she said. If you deprive it of one sensory input, the other senses take over, almost instantly.

You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy.

Agitators and declaimers may heat the blood, but they do not illumine the mind.

It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. [Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.]