The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.

There are women so hard to please that it would seem as if nothing less than an angel would suit them; and hence it comes that they often encounter devils.

Delicacy is the genuine tint of virtue.

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.

We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones.

Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.

Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength.

Prudence advises us to use our enemies as if one day they might be friends.

Blushes cannot be counterfeited.

Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something and give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing.

Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books.

Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.

To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.

I made the mistake of watching "A.I." on cable the week they showed it about 792 times, and I ended up watching it every time it was on.

Intimacy with a beloved pet or special animal makes millions of people feel as though they win the lottery every day.

Life comes when you have knowledge, wisdom, and understanding, when you can see for real, touch, and feel for real, know for real. Then you are truly living.

The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.

In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your peace of heart.

I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be protected and promoted by the government.