There are wrongs for which religion makes no provision, and of which it has no comprehension.--"Wanda

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Pain that you fear becomes present if you dare.

Good taste is not the birthright of snobs, but a gift from God sometimes found in the unlikeliest of people".

Religion would have us believe that immortality is reserved for the gods. We remain skeptical.

Authenticity is the back bone of every dream and the source of open doors.

Though I carry always some ill-nature about me, yet it is, I hope, no more than is in this world necessary for a preservative.

The 'Hipster Nerds' like stuff because they hate it. It's like they ironically like it.

I would sit and talk to any president who wishes to talk to me, but I'm not anxious to rule it in.

I'm always following the characters and I'm always interested in what happens to them, but what happens to them is conditioned by the circumstances in which they live.

All the friends that I loved and wanted to reward are dead, and all the enemies that I hated and I had marked out for punishment are turned to my friends.

I think the word rich is all relative.