It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he must be already man. '
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.
And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.
The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.
She's not the one I want. " His words came out terse. "It's you. It's been you since. . . since the minute I first saw you.
The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor employed.