Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman.
The envious will die, but envy never. [Fr. , Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie. ]
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
Reason is not what decides love.
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?
When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other.
Earth is a small town with many neighborhoods in a very big universe.
The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.
There are perhaps only one or two things in the world which are not far more charming in desire than they are in possession.