How many persons fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old!

Esteem has more engaging charms than friendship, or even love. It captivates hearts better, and never makes ings.

Misers are very kind people: they amass wealth for those who wish their death.

I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer great misfortunes than to do great things.

Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?

To believe with certainty, we must begin with doubting.

We are usually mistaken in esteeming men too much; rarely in esteeming them too little.

Gaiety is the soul's health; sadness is its poison.

Genius speaks only to genius.

Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes us as a judge.

There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.

Go for it. It will make a great story.

Happiness is the cheapest thing in the world ... when we buy it for someone else.

I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.

Southern lawyers don't read novels much.

I want to be positive and say: everything I've written will get made eventually.

The Snow-drop, Winter's timid child, Awakes to life, bedew'd with tears.

There are no super saints, only those that don't quit.

we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us.

I'm too direct and too unsparingly impatient.