Choice

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time

Let twenty pass, and stone the twenty-first, loving not, hating not, just choosing so

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

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

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves

Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else

Of two evils, choose neither

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams