Sin is not so sinful as hypocrisy.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

three-fourths of all marriages are unhappy.

It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success.

Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny.

Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other.

Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty.

Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?

Philosophy may raise us above grandeur, but nothing can elevate us above the ennui which accompanies it.

Woman softens her own troubles by generously solacing those of others.

Hope says to us constantly, "Go on, go on..."

We joyfully pray with grateful heart’s to welcome blessings in New Year.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

Everyone has his own imagination of God. It is best if everyone is left to his own imagination.

Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint.

You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.

The shock of twentieth-century technology numbed our brains and we are just beginning to notice the spiritual and social debris that our technology has strewn about us.

As long as you're having fun and still doing stuff, it doesn't matter what other people think.

There's no point in being complete on the outside when you're broken in the inside.

The debate over troop levels will rage for years; it is...beside the point.

Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start.