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Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

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If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

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Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.

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If you can read this, thank a teacher.

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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

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Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday.

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Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

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Honey is sweet but bees sting.

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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

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