I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged.
Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes.
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.
If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.
I love, love, love songwriting. It's like the most therapeutic thing in the world.
Television: The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.
One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?
But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must reach out of its jurisdiction for help, appealing to a higher authority in order to find your comfort.