The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable, and your experience helpful. Let those who do not, seek their own kind.

We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.

All failed lovers rewrite the script, as if one sexual detail or another might have tipped the balance of pain into destiny, either tragic or miraculous. History record the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat.

If there is one vegetable which is God-given, it is the haricot bean.

Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.