Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

A farce or comedy is best played

Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.

A resolution never to deceive exposes a man to be often deceived.

The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men.

Not what we have, but what we use, not what we see, but what we choose, these are the things that mar or bless the sum of human happiness.

A twinge at the edge of her lips and she continued, the soft, slow lilt of recitation: "Ancient walls that sing the distant hours.

Joy is a weapon we use to fight life's battles.

I try not to hit a swing volley and run back. So my swing volley is kind of that transition to the net. It's been one of my favorite shots ever since I was young.

Life is a vale of tears in which there are moments you just can't stop giggling.

People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible