For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.

Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths.

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

Make your best thoughts into action.

Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.

Fortune does not change [people], it unmasks them.

Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.

A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.

One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.

It is never permissible to say, I say.

How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed.

First fill your heart with an abundance of love. Then let the light of your love enlighten the whole world.

Even when we seek advice from others, deep inside we wish the advice given to us is the one we are secretly already wishing for in our hearts.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Most people are not ready for death, theirs or anybody elses.

The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.

Definitely, I'm always nice. Sometimes I wish I could be naughty, I'm just a little too boring.

We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it’s gone – its value is incontestable.

Folks are like plants; we all lean towards the light.

Your talent is in your choice.

The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.