Glances are the first billets-doux of love.

Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislikes being deceived, one likes even less to be undeceived.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.

If a man needs a religion to conduct himself properly in this world, it is a sign that he has either a limited mind or a corrupt heart.

A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason.

Novelty is the storehouse of pleasure.

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

It is not enough to be wise, one must be engaging.

There are no perfect women in the world; only hypocrites exhibit no defects.

We learn to do by doing.

Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That's when you learn that the tragedy of plants is that they have roots.

Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.

A wicked Hero will turn his back to an innocent coward.

A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.

I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.

If Russia had the same military power that America did, earth would be called Russia.

Here at the bottom of the world, everything was upside down.

The liberals are fighting so hard whenever President Bush appoints any federal judges.

I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.