"There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful."

"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair."

"A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all."

"There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed."

"You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company."

"A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him."

"The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country."

"Discretion is not the better part of biography."

"The truth of the matter is that window management under X is not yet well understood."

"(i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands"

"For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily, when good is hungry is seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters."

"Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken."