The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament.

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.

Just make sure that the thing you're living for is worth dying for." --Levi

Tapping a finger against the flesh of her elbow, she deadpanned, “Jacin Clay, there is an assassin under my bed.

At any rate you can bear it for a quarter of an hour!

He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.

The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.

There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.

One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have no roots.

Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.

So many of my family and friends had lost their battles against cancer. What could I do that my relatives and friends had not? What could I do that would be different?

Count no mortal fortunate till he has departed this life free from pain.