He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors but they are seldom or ever inventors.
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
Nine men in ten are would be suicides.
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
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