The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

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.

What is life if not joy?

Gil has put his book down and is gazing at something inside his head.

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own.

I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.

Any opportunity to serve in the Church is a blessing.

By which I get my wealth-- And very gladly will I drink Your Honour's noble health.

The ocean doesn't care about you. It makes your boat feel tiny. The oceans are great promoters of religion, or at least of humility-but not in everyone.

We're all ignorant, just about different stuff.