The instability of our tastes is the occasion of the irregularity of our lives.

Esteem has more engaging charms than friendship, or even love. It captivates hearts better, and never makes ings.

Misers are very kind people: they amass wealth for those who wish their death.

I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer great misfortunes than to do great things.

Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?

To believe with certainty, we must begin with doubting.

We are usually mistaken in esteeming men too much; rarely in esteeming them too little.

Gaiety is the soul's health; sadness is its poison.

How many persons fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old!

Genius speaks only to genius.

Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes us as a judge.

You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.

No 'tis not so deep as a well nor so wide as a church door but 'tis enough 'twill serve: ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered I warrant for this world.

One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10, 000 hours to become world-class at.

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

I have no recipe for how to combine things. But you must be sincere. And if you are, strangely, it will succeed.

When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?

He has a brain like Einstein's - dead since 1955

Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have.

Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free. Truth and freedom either go together hand in hand or together they perish in misery.

For me to act natural and real but also try to be funny while doing that is hard.