Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.

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.

The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

My experience is the opposite.

The book is a form in which some of the greatest masterpieces that mankind has ever achieved are expressed.

It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.

I don't have that addictive, "What's going on?" feeling anymore, thank god.

Anybody can get lost in themselves.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling.

Let us pray for all good and faithful priests who dedicate themselves to their people with generosity and unknown sacrifices.

When they told me that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, my reply was 'Still?'