You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor.
I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.
A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest.
The soul selects her own society.
I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious
The traveller has reached the end of the journey.
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
When humour goes, there goes civilization.
When the wise man points at the moon, the idiot looks at the finger.
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.
To know, is to know that you know nothing, that is the meaning of true knowledge.
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
Passion for fame: a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
He ate and drank the precious words, his spirit grew robust; he knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was dust.
If I understand change, I shall make no great mistake in life.
All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
The journey with a 1000 miles begins with one step.
Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is curiosity.