There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

There is no man so good who were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

No one is exempt from talking nonsense the misfortune is to do it solemnly.

To make a crooked stick straight we bend it the contrary way.

When I play with my cat who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?

Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.

Keep chasing your dreams before guilt of doing nothing touches your back

Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?

You can't go by what a girl says, when she's giving you the devil for making a chump of yourself. It's like Shakespeare. Sounds well, but doesn't mean anything.

'For example' is not proof.

My mistake was in underestimating the emotional force of a song you have already hear a thousand times.

Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.

For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.

I do one sit up a day. I get up in the morning, that's the first half. I lay down at night, that's the second half.

America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.'