A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Comedy is acting out optimism.
Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
Before I speak, I have something important to say.
Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others
If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.
