Don’t try to make everyone happy

It's harder to hate someone when they like the same ice cream as you.

The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.

Do you forget that I am your sister?” “No; I’ve never been granted the opportunity to forget it.

How wonderful it is, to be silent with someone.

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.

The loss of friends is a tax on age!

On the whole, it seems to me that probably the American press is doing a better job of this mediation, so to speak, between the people and the administration than the press of any other country.