Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not pay great ones with ingratitude.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.

The perfect Christmas tree? All Christmas trees are perfect!

It's the people without the money and the power, who desperately want to live, for those people small things aren't small at all.

You know," Kirk said finally, breaking the silence. "I see it. He is pretty hot.

The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.

The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.

The eye is inlet to the soul.

I hate, loathe, and despise Christmas. It's a time when single people have to take cover or get out of town.

A fine morning's killing, ay! All their necks wrung - all dead birds! Once they could fly - fly and swim! Fly and swim! All dead now - and sold cheap in the open market!

The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily.