Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.

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.

It is wisdom to believe the heart.

Certainly everyone, in order to protect love, Certainly wishes to believe in something

But be careful; sand is already broken but glass breaks. The shoes are for dancing, not running away.

Fate does not play jokes.

We have to love our freedom, not just for the private opportunities it provides, but for the goodness it makes possible.

You're not going to be great at everything. Surround yourself with people that can compliment you so you can work together and then everybody can be successful.

Foes of what's cooking see no worth behind it. Those that are looking for nothing will find it.

I don't know any family that doesn't have a story somewhere. Besides, it you didn't have those things in life, you'd be so bland.

Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of an eleemosynary character.

I'm a peripheral visionary.