It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion.

Morals are an acquirement -- like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis -- no man is born with them.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.