One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.

Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths.

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

Make your best thoughts into action.

Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.

For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.

Fortune does not change [people], it unmasks them.

Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.

A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.

It is never permissible to say, I say.

How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed.

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until after considerable acquaintance with her.

When your eyes beholds mine, I am mesmerized only to be your wife in bad times more than the best ones. Because whatever one say Marriage is all about Compassion

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his [sic!] time but most people are far behind theirs.

It is better by assenting to truth to conquer opinion, than by assenting to opinion to be conquered by truth.

I thought [ as a kid], "Maybe I don't want to start a punk band necessarily. I just want to learn to be a great songwriter," and got really into trying to figure out how that could be possible.

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.

One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner.

The brain weighs only three pounds, yet it is the most complex object in the solar system.

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.

The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light - and the next tunnel.