We live with our defects as with the odors we carry about us: we do not perceive them, but they incommode those who approach us.

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them.

Temperance adds zest to pleasure.

We like to know the weakness of eminent persons; it consoles us for our inferiority.

The first rule for speaking well is to think well.

Politeness costs little and yields much.

One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it.

Would you be esteemed? Live with persons that are estimable.

Simplicity is oftenest an adroit pretence.

We can easily forgive want of means; but littleness, with means, is disgusting.

The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.

Why should I struggle through hundreds of pages of fabrication to reach half a dozen very little truths?''For fun?''Fun!' He pounced on the word. 'Words are for truth. For facts. Not fiction.

I am not going to pretend to write a love letter to another man.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.

Assuredly of all earthly conditions uncertainty is the most unblest.

What is the image you have of yourself?

Bring the best of your Authentic Self to every opportunity.

What are you doing?” she cried in protest. “Playing,” he said, the single word rough, almost guttural.

I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.

I don't myself believe in astrology. However, I think that's because I'm a Libra and Libras are always skeptical.