The most entertaining surface on earth is the human face.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

I'm proud to be a freak of nature.

I hate seeing people that look like you. Especially if God's living by the motto 'If at first you don't succeed.'

Everybody thinks if you do one thing, you can't do something else. So I like the fact that I can be versatile if I want to.

The only free road, the Underground Railroad, is owned and managed by the Vigilant Committee. They have tunneled under the whole breadth of the land.

I don't know anybody that doesn't own a gun.

There are some things that can't be measured.

I think now we're seeing the pendulum switch back to this idea where conversations are more important, if not more important than documents.

There are those fortunate hours when the world consents to be made into a poem.

Ratings agencies are highly conflicted, unimaginative dupes. They are blissfully unaware of adverse selection and moral hazard. Investors should never trust them.

Muslim societies must leave behind these dual aspects: secularism/Islamism.