Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.

None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort.

Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.

Many think they have a kind heart who have only weak nerves.

An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies... all the stupid men.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

Calmness is the graceful form of Confidence.

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.

There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.

Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.

To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand,

Happiness greatness pride-nothing is secure nothing keeps.

In any matter of moral importance, our first task, before we plunge ahead and decide what to do, is to figure out what we ought to do.

I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that.

Art will liberate itself from the needs and desires of men. No longer will we paint a forest ora horseas we like oras theyappear to us, but as they really are.

The moderns do not realize modernity.

I know a girl made of memories and phrases, lives her whole life in chapters and phases.

What makes a person sexy is when he's not trying to be sexy.

If someone doesn't have much use for praising Him now, it's foolish to think they're ready for heaven.

Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes.