The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.

There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect

In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.

Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

The quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst that suitors can choose.

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.

Any moral system that is detached from God, no matter how noble and sincerely held, will likewise fail.

It was painful to have him so near, yet beyond my reach.

Apparently, the princes had found the only four women in the universes who didn’t dream of being royal, rich and adored by their husbands.

Oh, Jatel, I am so used. Would you rid yourself of me?" the knight started to cry.Jatel slowly kissed the woman upon her forehead. To the Gods! how he loved her so.Not for the world entire, sire.

Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife, the years from off your life, my friend! the years that death takes off my life, he'll take from off the other end!

I do some messing around with things, not necessarily about me but about place and people and the things around.

An extraordinary life is all about daily, continuous improvements in the areas that matter most.

There's a value to getting the meal on the table every night, and there's a value to being an old-school kind of parent.

I am his, and he is mine, and it has been that way all along.

The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.