Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night.

A wound on Heart is something that can not be treated by any medicine, but can be treated by sweet words.

All ideas grow out of other ideas

Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue.

The interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.

The reasons for legal intervention in favour of children apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims of the most brutal part of mankind - the lower animals.

America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have those orders obeyed.

Peace is truly the complete and undisturbed possession of what is desired.

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.