Our enemies' opinion of us comes closer to the truth than our own.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

Find three hobbies you love: one to make you money, one to keep you in shape, and one to be creative.

Embrace every opportunity of exercising kind feelings and doing good to others, especially to the household of faith.

I am not tired of my work, neither am I tired of the world; yet, when Christ calls me home, I shall go with gladness.

There's no rhyme or reason to how I dress.

I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.

I'm not supposed to communicate something that's completely unrealistic.

I don't mind about the dead ones. They're dead. The worst of it is, they cling to the living and won't let go.

Creative work carries with it a form of intense love.

When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.

No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.