The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion.

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.

It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement convinced that their cause is lost it is only then that cause triumphs.

Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind.

The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature; and what nature will he honour who honours not the human?

Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?

I just want a look so classic that I don't get made fun of for it later!

I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates.

It takes quite a while for the living to catch up with the believing, but of course it can. As we live up to the highest light we have, more light is given.

Live your dream. Do what you came here to do.

I would like to be remembered as a responsible human being who handled business while also taking care of his family.