The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What read more

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating; people who know absolutely everything, and people who know read more

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating; people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends read more

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on read more

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, read more

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.