Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his.

None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort.

Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.

Many think they have a kind heart who have only weak nerves.

An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies... all the stupid men.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

Calmness is the graceful form of Confidence.

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.

There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.

Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.

Intelligence rarely trumps human nature.

Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. Creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions.

When you are rich, your past disappears. You get everything you want when you want it . . . Everyone wants to know you. Everyone wants to be your friend.

We always have reason to rejoice and never have reason to complain.

I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

If you don't have an e-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your own World Wide Web page, you're a nobody.

Personal and collective awakening are one and the same - when a raindrop joins the sea, the sea also merges with the raindrop.

If somebody has done it before, that is enough reason to knock an idea off the table