He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

Trust, but verify.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

‚Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

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

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Information is not knowledge.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.