I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden.

That which is called firmness in a king is called obstinacy in a donkey

I thought maybe I'd get a couple more, ... but not like this. Everyone said they are addicting. I just like having artwork on my body.

Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline.

Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.

Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where she wants and gets up and goes.

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.

Whenever we read a book we love, we change it, to some extent. We read into it our own interpretations, and the meanings which the words have taken on in our time. If a book is so rigid that it cannot lend itself to these fluctuations, it is useful only while it seems strictly true, and afterwards it is completely out of date.

In the Fourth Eclogue also Vergil has still the enthusiasm of youth. Few poems are so rich in magnificent lines or in stirring hopes... His hope is for a golden age in which there shall be no toil, no commerce, no sorrow, yet he still wants a high development of the intellectual life, the speculations of science, the practical application of knowledge.