All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.

WHAT is America but beauty queens, millionaires, stupid records and Hollywood?

It's better to die doing good than to live doing evil.

We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.

If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.

He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.

The standards have sunk so low throughout our culture that who really knows.

Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living.

Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing, Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound.