Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Humility is attentive patience.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.