You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.