Nothing can be more true, than that the greatest Boasters have the least of what they pretend to.

Those Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

Possession naturally abates the Vigour of Desire.

The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition.

There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much the more we draw nearer to the Great Author of Nature.

The jealous have but moments of Delight for years of Pain.

Those who are unjust in one Thing, will be so in others.

Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them.

In fine, that it is not enough to be good, without behaving in such a manner as shall make others acknowledge us to be so.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

It was dizzying—cause and effect, round and round, stretching back to the source.

You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.

It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.

This is a book that respects kids and their ideas. And in that regard, it places Chasing Vermeer in the tradition of classic favorites fondly recalled from our own childhoods.

The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact.

The very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and irrational turn out to be a solution to one of the hardest problems humans face: cooperation without kinship

There is no pleasure that I haven't actually made myself sick on.

Maybe I couldn't be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we settle our differences before a war instead of after.

I told my staff that I'm so boring that I didn't even know I was boring.