There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
Prolonged endurance tames the bold.
A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
Absence - that common cure of love.
Adversity is the first path to truth.
Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.