However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

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.

God love to be with us. We must daily seek His presence.

History remembers only the names of the conquerors. There are no pages devoted to the scruples of the losers.

The amount of money you owe doesn't matter

One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger.

At home I am a nice guy but I don't want the world to know. Humble people I've found don't go very far.

Adversities are temporary. What is permanent is what we become by the way we react to them.

Have you noticed we can breathe in here too? Gosh, I wouldn't have picked up on that.

When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I love you'-ye'll ken it was because I didna have time.

The world is richer than it is possible to express in any single language.

Size is no guarantee of power.