Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

To understand everything makes one very indulgent.

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

The more I see of men the more I like dogs.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

Speech happens to not be his language.

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.

There is no diplomacy like candor.

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.

I want to make it clear publicly that I expect more candor from this Administration during the next four years, particularly with members on the Foreign Relations Committee so that we can maintain a bipartisan foreign policy.

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

In all candor, the Court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evidence and rule on questions of privilege in criminal matters simply because it is the president of the United States who holds the evidence.

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it may lead us, and to submit, without reserve or objection, to all the teachings of this religion, if it be found to be of divine origin.

Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present.

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.

Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people.

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

We expect candor and transparency from the president, from the administration.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.