To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

Life doesn't just happen to you

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

Love enters later in life through the cracks left by the first heartbreak.

I glanced at my mate- the male who had always presented me with a choice not as a gift, but as my own gods-given right.

Distrust interested advice.

All get what they want; they do not always like it.

Showing the addiction and unusual sexual practices are ways of just outlining a much bigger character trait.

I should like to be a horse.

Discrimination, in all its forms, is bad for business.

After a year, I thought gee I don't really need college anymore, which wasn't correct, but that's what I thought.