Innocence finds not near so much protection as guilt.

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.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

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 is nothing more boring than a bored person.

Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!

I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.

He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.

A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy.

I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now.

One of the most important things we hear is the S.B.A. needs to be ubiquitous. We do all these things, but people still don't know.

The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not.