Humiliation is a guest that only comes to those who have made ready his resting-place, and will give him a fair welcome. ... no one can disgrace you save yourself.

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.

Love and compassion are the mother and father of a smile. We need to create more smiles in our world today. Smiles, after all, pave the way to a happy world.

They were dealt with as in war, and they naturally employed the means that were used against them.

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.

The bookis a distant relative of the truth, and the film is a distant relative of the book.

...it was imaginative people who tended to lie. Lying required making stuff up, and only imaginative people were good at that.

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

In the New World, happiness is enforced.

I am international. When I put out my second mixtape, we did four tours and a tour overseas.