Only the educated are free.

To copy is to put an end to creativeness. Unless there is originality, you can do nothing.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

Speakwhen you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.