It is not true that men prefer foolish women. Rather they prefer women who can simulate foolishness whenever necessary, which is the very core of intelligence.

We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.

We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.

To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

A man is most accurately judged by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or to reciprocate.

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.

Every woman needs to appreciate her natural beauty, but she also needs to analyze the topic of complexes in general

Law is a bottomless pit.

your soul is an inner something that is another you and hardly anybody knows what it's really thinkin' except you.

I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs.

That's the problem with the truth," Darcy said. "Liars and honest men both claim to have it.

Direction determines destination.

I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal.

He who wisheth to enter Paradise at the best door must please his father and mother.

No dream ever entirely disappears. Somewhere it troubles some unfortunate person and some day, when that person has been sufficiently troubled, it will be reproduced on the lot.

Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.