“Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.”

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

The jests of the rich are ever successful.

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

It’s a weird feeling when people are defining you, and you haven’t even defined yourself.

People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love.

School’s a weird thing. I’m not sure it works.

I was always fascinated by people who are considered completely normal, because I find them the weirdest of all.

Everywhere I go, somebody is staring at me, I don’t know if people are staring because they recognize me or because they think I’m a weirdo.

It’s weird not to be weird.

I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.

Live life fully while you’re here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird.