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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; and it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you're not.
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil, but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often, just to save it from drying out completely.
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
A good novel tells you the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells you the truth about its author.
The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.
The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
How amazing it is to be alive! Anyone who lives and breathes and puts both feet on the ground, What possible reason could he have for envying the gods?
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
There is one guaranteed formula for failure, and that is to try to please everyone.
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
You know, women always could endure more than men. Not only physically, but mentally - did you ever get a peek at some of the husbands?
From the way Denny's shaking his head, he's either got an injured shoulder or a gnat in his eye.
