Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.