There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.