No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.

I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory and in creative action that man finds his supreme joy.

Be kind to people who are different from you.

I like to be in pain when I'm getting massaged. That way I know I'm getting my money's worth.

I am with the angels and just completely happy.

Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

It kind of sounds like the noise a goat would make if you punched it in the face.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.