Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths.

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

Make your best thoughts into action.

Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.

For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.

Fortune does not change [people], it unmasks them.

Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.

A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.

One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.

It is never permissible to say, I say.

How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed.

Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning!

But now I remember, of course, I'm never going to be old.

And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins

And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and college admittance.

I still deliver like a midwife

Nothing under heaven so strongly doth allure the sense of man, and all his mind possess, as beauty's love.

I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.

Things will get worse before they get better.

The religion of that prophet [Karl Marx] who knew not the truth, is founded upon equality of the belly.

Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.