If I become president, I couldn't care less about my company.
The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.
It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women.
Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swiftly as the wind, and the moon, which had risen at our departure to give us light, rolled through the sky like a wheel detached from its carriage.
What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a short cut which speedily leads to love.
Cats are the tigers of us poor devils.
Only that which serves no end is beautiful; everything useful is ugly.
Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.
I was tired of hanging on, taking the torn pieces to make something whole with them.
I get paid to do the thing I love most, and maybe that makes blending into the crowd impossible sometimes, but I wouldnt trade it for the world.
What you wish to do you are apt to think you ought to do.