There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.

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.

I only need to survive on tea, bread and fruits. I can keep working.

We all tell our stories the way we want to. And sometimes those stories have nothing to do with reality.

She had become so much more accustomed to hard work and opposition than to adulation that the only emotion she had felt had been one of acute discomfort.

Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.

We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him we need no more seek Him.

In my work theres always been a duality between sticking to reality and trying to stage things.

Amy [ Schumer] is a really, really hilarious writer.She's super funny, and I feel like the core of our senses of humor is really similar.

Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it.

Small faults and virtues are for daily life. The big ones are for emergencies.

I always worry that me by myself, I'm doing the same thing I'm always doing and become too lazy and conservative in what I do, or too incestuous in my own thoughts.