Excess always carries its own retribution.

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.

You begin with other people's memories and end up with your own.

Some blind faithfully

The goal of tyrants is tyranny, and the goal of tyranny is tyranny.

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.

It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.

Some hours weigh against a whole lifetime.

I want to see more companies do profit-sharing. If you help create the profits, you should be able to share in them, not just the executives at the top.

The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst.

We have become so dependent on technology. I am not fond of technology myself, and I do not have a smart phone.

When people say " I just don't have enough time " they mean " I prioritized something else.