To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

My lady had the body of a siren, the face of a goddess, and the mind of an Armenian camel dealer.

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.

... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.

The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.