The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason.

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.

If God fairness, impartiality, equity, are his essence, that should become dominant in any society

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love.

Remember, people who peek through keyholes have to expect an occasional poke in the eye.

To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.

With grace and a keen appreciation of human nature, Nicholas Thompson has written a revealing, moving history of the Cold War through two fascinating men.

Faction is to party what the superlative is to the positive. Party is a political evil, and faction is the worst of all parties.

The battle for conservation will go on endlessly. It is part of the universal battle between right and wrong.

Everyone has been a witness sometime - It doesn't change it if you don't believe.

When you're playing an exhibition, you're kind of letting everyone get an opportunity.

Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic.