Voltaire

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

Who’s not sat tense before his own heart’s curtain.

That strong mother doesn’t tell her cub ‘Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you’. She says, ‘Toughen up, this is reality we are living in’.

Anger is short madness

For character too is a process and an unfolding… among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Enjoy yourself – it’s later than you think.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Mr. Emerson visited Thoreau at the jail, and the meeting between the two philosophers must have been interesting and somewhat dramatic. The account of the meeting was told me by Miss Maria Thoreau Henry Thoreaus auntHenry, why are you here? Waldo, why are you not here?

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other; given the upper, to find the under side.

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

A woman is a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

The more you know, the less you need.

Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Revolutions are always verbose.