No one likes to be pitied for his faults.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Patience is the ability to enjoy the calm of boredom.

Anne is God. I am God. The happy grass are God, Jill groks in beauty always. Jill is God. All shaping and making and creating together.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

I can't go on. I'll go on.

I'd like to be more of a bad influence than a role model. I'm getting lots of boys to wear eye-liner again which is good.

It's the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one's done.

You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.

The only trouble with this world today lies in our lack of understanding of the power of imagination.

Trading is more or less like betting or gambling, but only without the pleasure show of the game.