Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows; it can only poison if it be plucked.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

You may not attain the highest height with one leap but my dear you will reach your destination.

I get pigeonholed into type-A personality characters, but I'm really not type A. I'm kind of a spaz.

There are two impossibilities in life: "just one drink" and "an honest politician."

If we can only live once, let it be a daring adventure.

A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.

Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.

I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration.

Too often we elevate the inconsequential into the influential... by reacting without reflecting.

The iPad is the clearest expression of our vision of the future of personal computing.

I don't believe that you can possibly separate expression from thought in an imaginative work. The better a thing is expressed, the more completely it is thought.