Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.

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.

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

I truly believe I am not afraid of death. What I shrink from, I believe, is the shame of dying as stupid and befuddled as I am.

There are songs that make you cry, right?""Sure, " I say."When you're dead, everything in the world is like a song that makes you cry.

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak they are but the instruments of the wise.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.

Our love lives because I live.

Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two.

Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.