In love, first please the eye, then win the heart.

The most frequent cause of regret for what we have done is because its effects interfere with what we would do.

Kenny G has a Christmas album out this year. Hey, happy birthday Jesus! Hope you like crap!

They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are capable of trust only in matters of ordinary and settled occurrence.

Never raise expectations in others that you cannot realize: promise is less pleasing than disappointment is vexatious.

It is the folly of weak-minded people, to imagine they are what flattery or conceit represents them; and that it is useless for them to be what they are not, since they seem already to have acquired the reputation of it.

Laws, however divine in origin and institution, would be found of little coercion among men, were the administration of them not committed to mortals.