I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

People cut themselves off from their ties of the old life when they come to Los Angeles. They are looking for a place where they can be free, where they can do things they couldn't do anywhere else.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

And, e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy.

The cankers of a calm world and a long peace. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 2.

The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.

Although they had no first aid class,Egyptians were not dummies.They knew the art of bandaging,They learned it from their Mummies.

The profoundly wise do not declaim against superficial knowledge in others, as much as the profoundly ignorant.

Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.

Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.

As much use as a yard of pump water.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.

A small family is soon provided for.

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn out that there are hundreds, thousands, even millions of other people just as we are, who see the truth as we do...and are only waiting, again as we are, for someone to proclaim it. The Kingdom of God is within you.

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.