There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

An effective follow-up system is the key to an effective coaching process, which will lead to significant behavioral changes. True success is in the follow-up.

I'd been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where who I was, right now, was enough.

And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Latin life is rich with warmth, family values and history. I want to bring that beauty into American homes.

Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible be daily before your eyes, but chiefly death, and you win never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms.

It is the considered opinion of most members of our rational élites that, in any given difference of opinion with reality, reality is wrong.

This is, i think, very much the Age of Anxiety, the age of the neurosis, because along with so much that weighs on our minds there is perhaps even more that grates on our nerves.

As an editor, I must often tell writers that their stories "do not fit our present needs." But there are times when I want to reply: "Sir, I would not trust you to write a ransom note."