Beauty may be the object of liking--great qualities of admiration--good ones of esteem--but love only is the object of love.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Handsome is that handsome does.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

Perhaps by now I'd come far enough that I had the guts to be afraid.

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

What's in a life without Camaraderie? For setting sail on a ship with a band of merry brothers by your side is much more gratifying than drifting aimlessly on a boat lost alone at sea.

In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.

Freedom begins between the ears.

Again--nothing you do or think or wish or make is necessary to establish your worth.

It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.

What keeps you from... living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy?