Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.

The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.

Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

And tears are heard within the harp I touch.

What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

There is no lighter burden nor more agreeable than a pen.

Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.

Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.

Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.

Curiosity doesn't matter any more. These days people don't want to be transported to emotional territories where they don't know how to react.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.

It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference.

My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.

Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.

Never lose a holy curiosity.