Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.

Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.

From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains; These first induce him the vile trash to try, Then lend his name, that other men may buy.

Oh, rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain; Who from the dark and doubtful love to run, And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun.

An infatuated man is not only foolish, but wild.

Void of all honor, avaricious, rash, The daring tribe compound their boasted trash Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill; All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill.

Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I've done it from my youth.

In idle wishes, fools supinely stay. Be there a will and wisdom finds a way.

The coward never on himself relies, But to an equal for assistance flies.

A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.

Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long.

I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths.

An oldtimer is a person who's had many interesting experiences, some of them true.

Bonobos are... ambassadors from a primordial world of peace through pleasure, inviting us in one kiss at a time.

It's cool cause my sister is older than me and we went to the same high school, so by the time I got to high school, I got the lowdown on all the teachers and everything.

But one thing the New Age folks and those who pursue alternative spiritual visions need to be aware of is how easily we can become and at times in my experience are like the religious right.

She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.

I wanted to work in either Miami or L.A. After Canada, I wanted warm weather

When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.

Women are the harshest critics of other women.

A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.