Why is youth so short and age so long?

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.

Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.

Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.

Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!

I am glad my life is coming to an end. To think that it might last another five hundred years, now that would be terrible, in my case.

Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

William McKinley has surely been underrated - in no small part because he was succeeded by a memorable leader, Theodore Roosevelt.

The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.

I've never been a major smoker, but I think America's view on weed is ridiculous. I mean - are you kidding me? If everyone smoked weed, the world would be a better place.

Yes, I have cancer and it might not go away, but I can still have a future because life goes on.

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.