We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman.
The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.
Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.
Everything comes to him who waits.
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
