“Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.”

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

I was crawling around inside of her. She was a church pianist. My dad was a brilliant singer. I was hearing it.

The pitcher setting up the batter. It’s chess, and you play with it.

The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I’ll do it differently later.

My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.

Infinity imagines curiosity from the wild abyss – Only the child makes a swing-set view of the worlds upside down.

It is that happy stretch of time when the lovers set to chronicling their passion. When no glance, no tone of voice is so fleeting but it shines with significance.

It’s just a way you have to set up some kind of activities to follow your instincts or your curiosities.

America betrays its friends. It sets them up and betrays them. I’d rather be America’s enemy.