All forced virtue is degrading in it effect.

Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.

Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!

A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.

Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant.

A quart of doubt to an ounce of truth is the safest brew.

We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.

People get to like a soul, but a satisfactory hat makes an impression at first sight.

love comes to man through his senses - to woman through her imagination.

If the gods have no sense of humor they must weep a great deal.

Uncle said, "If love would save him, wouldn't no harm come to him.

Oh Dear! How unfortunate I am not to have anyone to weep with!

Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols.

I'll be honest, I like shooting 'New Girl.' I like the people. The show is still new to me. I've never done TV like this before.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

I am a fantastic nurse. I discovered this about myself, and Im really fantastic about diagnosing things.

I don't enjoy being in Europe for weeks on end, so I just skip it.

The censors wouldn't even let me sit on a guy's lap, and I've been on more laps than a table-napkin.

He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years, or a man of about a hundred and ten who had been aged by trouble.