Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.

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.

Music give infinite strength.

Of all the lessons my parents taught me, GIVING was the best

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.

Hell is the special pain that dwells in that loss which you yourself have caused

If a man doesn't find ease in himself, 'tis in vain to seek it elsewhere.

Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.

Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness.

The best hitter I ever saw was Ted Williams.

The U.K.-U.S. defense relationship is the broadest, deepest and most advanced of any two countries, sharing military hardware and expertise.