The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.

The only reason for your intimidation by the devil, and your being afraid of him, or what he can do is because you are living in ignorance (darkness) which is his territory.

it was dawning on me how uphill a poet's path was, and I confessed to her that if I had to be the choice between being happy or being a poet, I'd choose to be happy.

The sooner growing older is stripped of reflexive dread, the better equipped we are to benefit from the countless ways in which it can enrich us.

If you can't swim, the idea of being in nine feet of water is terrifying, much less the ocean.

Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.

-Who are you, anyway? -Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody else by loving them.

Whichever age you are, that's the best age. I'm a very "now" person.

An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.

I have always considered myself an artist and painting was the first medium that I claimed.