We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

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.

To be awake is to be alive.

Darkness all around, smoke in between my fingers, all you have given me dear, sorrow and sadness to sing here.

Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather Strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams; Somewhere above us, in elusive ether, Waits the fulfilment of our dearest dreams.

Happiness is a condition of the soul. This joyous state comes as a result of righteous living.

Nothing is too beautiful, nothing is too expensive.

The most important thing in your life is to be happy, to be patient and to learn to love life and do everything you can.

There are two types of people: The ones who give you 50 reasons it can't be done ... and the ones who just do it.

A safe pleasure is a tame pleasure.

The Word of God proves the truth of religion; the corruption of man, its necessity; government, its advantages.

But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.