We're fine together, just like this: Our silence protects us from ourselves
Temperament is the thermometer of character.
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.
Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
Magic of the nights is always much impressive than the magic of the days!
If I can make someone laugh, I lift them out of their fundamentally tragic existence.
History does not have sides, although historians do.
biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.