In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.
If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.
They memorize everything and learn. . . nothing.
Thoughts aren't fact, so don't take them seriously
There are two kinds of leaders: those who are interested in the flock, and those who are interested in the fleece.
I got my career started late so, even though I'm getting older, I don't have as much wear and tear on my arm. I feel good. I really do.