Whether I scare some people or not, I don't give a hoot. If you're not scared by now, nothing can scare you.

I always feel that one should be loved passionately, not as a matter of course.

Trust is a two way street.

Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.

To prefer it is better than to only know it. To delight in it is better than merely to prefer it.

Life and death do not wait for legal action.

to be sure, marriage is all in all with the ladies; but with us gentlemen it's quite another thing!

Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic.

God does not choose those who are fit. He outfits those whom He chooses.

Our passions may be compared to certain slaves--the more severity we show them, the better they obey us.

Hardly a day goes by without me sticking on a Muddy Waters record.