It's not what you are that counts$$$ it's what they think you are.

I am as bad as the worst$$$ but$$$ thank God$$$ I am as good as the best.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

Don't speak of tomorrow. Let the music speak to us tonight$$$ in a happier language than ours.

The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of works of fiction should be to tell a story.

Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame;<br>It is the reflex of our earthly frame$$$<br>That takes its meaning from the nobler part$$$<br>And but translates the language of the heart.

In politics$$$ what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls$$$ the longer it dwells upon$$$ and the deeper it sinks into the mind.