The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Fall seven times, Stand up eight

The hard time is when people remembers you, because you need to be with them and its easy when they forgets you.

Music's been with me from the get-go. It was always around me as a kid. Dad got me my first guitar when I was 11 and, at school, if you wanted to be cool you had to be in a band.

You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.

Promises made out of ignorance should not be kept.

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.

In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.

Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is.

For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.