We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.

We are creatures on this planet that have the capacity of self-awareness, playing out our role just the same as all else.

My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.

A sustainable world means working together to create prosperity for all.

Good and evil are merely opposite sides of a coin. Get tossed in the air enough, it's easy to come down on the wrong side.

I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed.

It is a cliché about British bands going to America and being broken by the experience.

A churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the rapid downgrade.

I used to get so jealous if my wife liked another band more than my own. Come to think of it, I still do.

I think Austin is read more now than Charles Dickens, and Dickens was much more popular in his day. She endures because of her classicism.