Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible; without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden.

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.

Someday we'll find it the rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers and me

If you are the one who is dumped, then you feel like your life is over.

Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.

While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare

I wanted to see how fast you can go before it becomes nonsensical, a mess.

I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.

Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.

If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!

It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.