Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.

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.

You know you are changing when you no longer have points of references. Mapping a new life.

Cattle die, kinsmen die, you yourself must also die, but he who wins word fame lives forever

I hate being told what to do! Especially by myself!

Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.

There is no such thing as high returns without risk.

Carry your heart through this world like a life-giving sun

America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy.

No fish can swim until the King is born, until the King is born in Tupelo.

I can rest when I'm dead.

The moment I'm perceived to be even a tiny bit successful, my career will go down the pan.