There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.

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.

A lot of people said I could be a good player. I just wanted the opportunity to show it. I just let it happen.

My bedroom is so messy, if I died of natural causes, the cops would be like no he didn't, clearly there was a struggle.

All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid

The beatitudes say, "Blessed are the poor". They don't say, "Blessed are those who care for the poor."

The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly.

There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.

And joy is always a promise.

If there be a faith that can move mountains, it is faith in one's own power.

I shall be as secret as the grave.

Today's political climate does not allow the luxury of apathy.