"Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations."

"If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom."

"Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons."

"The best prophet of the future is the past."

"Ground not upon dreams you know they are ever contrary."

"Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts."

"The richness of existence is found in simple harmonies, not superfluous splendors. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting."