That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.

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.

we can do, whatever we want to do.

Without Elvis none of us could have made it.

I think fear is a very healthy motivator.

Crooked Hillary [Clinton] also wants a 550 percent increase in Syrian refugees to pour into our country .

If you care to see God, be pure. If you will not be pure, you will grow more and more impure.

I dont make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.

Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it.

The number of hypotheses available to explain any given phenomenon is infinite.

A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use.