However much you paid for a beautiful illusion, you got a bargain.

None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort.

Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.

Many think they have a kind heart who have only weak nerves.

An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies... all the stupid men.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

Calmness is the graceful form of Confidence.

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.

There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.

Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.

Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.

Ideally, brewers interpret history, and through science they create art.

When I was younger, I was a complete tomboy. Then in college I started emerging out of the tomboy stage and dressing differently.

One does not travel by plane. One is merely sent, like a parcel.

Many women have been successful at breaking the glass ceiling only to find a layer of men.

All laws are simulations of reality.

Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit.

Faith is a devout belief in what one does not understand.

I really try to write as an ordinary person would, not as someone who's too sophisticated about food, or too knowledgeable about things.

Today is the most important day of our lives.