“Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.”

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.

He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

Before every game I used to go out and shot the same shots over and over and over. In the summer time I spent a lot of time just shooting. So really it just came natural.

Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.

You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.

As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.

Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.

I’ve played for the Miami Heat my whole career under Pat Riley. Mr. GQ himself. So when I pick out my outfits before a game, I’m already feeling confident. And some of that swagger stays with me when I take the court.

One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.

It’s always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone’s seen the last one.