Women hope that the dead love may revive; but men know that of all dead things none are so past recall as a dead passion.

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.

When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.

It is the ultimate religion, through which all humans neuropsychologically morph into Buddhas, or Enlightened Beings.

Keep striving for your goals, and remember that it's good to be ambitious.

Stars don't want to have flaws. Stars like to be likable.

My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic.

But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events.

Things are in the saddle. And ride mankind.

If you focus completely on the things you love, then you are on your way to a beautiful life.

A good idea is like a lighted match, easily blown out by the cold winds of rigid management.

To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance tonight, it maybe thine tomorrow.