It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

The French painter Rousseau was once asked why he put a naked woman on a red sofa in the middle of his jungle pictures. He answered, 'I needed a bit of red there.'

It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful; it is as though my book were dining with me.