Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper!

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they’ve reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you’re just horny. It doesn’t mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

While we read history we make history.

Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper!

Happiness lies first of all in health.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

It is not observed in history that families improve with time.

A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.