Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.

Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.

Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.