I wish to live without committing any fault at any time.
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
It is well for us that, amidst all the variableness of life, there is One whom change cannot affect; One whose heart can never alter, and on whose brow mutability can make no furrows.
Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and methodical in its work that you never realize it has stolen your youth until you look into the mirror one morning and see a man you don't recognize.
I don't have problems with people, because if I do, I address it.