A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.

Irresolute men are sometimes very persistent in their undertakings, because if they give up their designs they would have to make a second resolution.

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.

I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --

Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.