There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.

Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.

Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.

Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.