Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable, and your experience helpful. Let those wh….

Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring..

All failed lovers rewrite the script, as if one sexual detail or another might have tipped the balance of pain into destiny, either tragic or miracul….

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past..

In many cases, ignorance is a good thing : the mind retains its freedom of investigation and does not stray along roads that lead nowhither, suggeste….

If there is one vegetable which is God-given, it is the haricot bean..

History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It knows the names of the ….

History records the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat..

Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past..

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at ….

We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd..

Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace..