Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

The sunset glow of self-possession.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

We Americans are not God's covenant people. America has, in any event, no biblical guarantee of perpetuity.

Let your thoughts be psalms, your prayers incense, and your breath praise.

There are certain defects which, well-mounted, glitter like virtue itself.

Faith makes blessed. Consequently it lies.

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

The temptation to add features to a program must be resisted as strongly as possible. This requires the dedication of a saint

You have yourself and your instinct - there isn't anything else at the end of the day.

If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Don't blame other people for your problems.

Bezos is super smart; don't get me wrong. He just makes ordinary control freaks look like stoned hippies.