"I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated."

"Virtue is insufficient temptation."

"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else."

"Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another."

"The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it."

"Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it."

"There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window."

"Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be."

"Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each."

"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars."

"When you have nothing to say, say nothing."

"He was a bold man that first ate an oyster."