Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.

Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.

Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little?

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.

The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others.

There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.

Company names without clear pronunciation or spelling won't last.

Self-awareness includes awareness of your body.

The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.

I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

If you are not the best, then pretend you are

The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.

To express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance. Certainly there is nothing in that of stereoscopic realism, but is it not something that actually exists?