We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.

In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.

It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.

In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no wonder, then, that I return the love.

I guess I wouldn't want to be rich. you'd never be sure if people liked you for what you were or what you had.--Tellie

It really is better to be lucky than to be good.

Marriage isn't about a collection of scenes over ten years of two people telling each other that they love each other. It's about commitment.

You ever wonder when God's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?

Time elaborately thrown away.

By headless Charles see heartless Henry lies.

Fascistic leaders are aggressively macho and chauvinistic. They are xenophobic about people who they portray as outsiders or some sort of threat to the nation or as weaklings they can denounce.

What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

It's all perfect, this Universe we are in. Slow down and enjoy it all.