But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

Blameless people are always the most exasperating.

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

Count your blessings and be grateful not a great fool.

Remember that your attitude towards life determines life’s attitude toward you. At any moment, you can choose to change everything for the better.

I prefer to sleep with deaf girls. Those crazy chicks never have a safe word.

Presence always wins out over principles.

A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you.

The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.

Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion?

Power must never be trusted without a check.

We shall be everything to each other. Nothing else in the world is of any consequence.

No one can change your beliefs for you, nor can they be forced upon you from without.