There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.

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.

We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and create the afterlife.

If “Been there, done that” isn’t your mantra, then make haste down your “bucket list.

The monarchy is a labour-intensive industry.

If leaders don't have an antidote for fear they will be crushed by it. What is your antidote?

If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to.

I'm for tax reform, not tax increases.

What we need is a dialogue amongst civilizations.

Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.

You can be a follower of Jesus and not necessarily be a Christian.

The world is a den of crazies.