"A woman should never be trusted with money."

"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of."

"In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes."

"I am excessively fond of music, but without the smallest skill or right of judging of anybody's performance."

"Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of."

"Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion."

"The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation."

"It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to."

"It is better to burn out than fade away."

"When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite."

"If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based."

"We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?"