If it wasn't so pointless and ridiculous, it would be more humiliating. Also, if there [Hollywood] weren't so many people as bad as myself - equally untalented people - it would be even more humiliating.

Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.

There's no such thing, of course, as an old-fashioned gay guy. They're the most decadent people.

Our passions may be compared to certain slaves--the more severity we show them, the better they obey us.

Education makes some men wiser, others more ridiculous and foolish!

It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.

Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.