A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

A Loveless Life is Like a Rudderless Ship Floating Uncontrollably in the Ocean of Life.

I don't write to escape .. I write to Indulge

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.

Your wife is always right. Very simple. I think I'm going to get it tattooed on my forehead.

I'm kind of a 'Fix-It Felix' video girl. I like the simpler, sweeter kind of games.

Greenpeace protesters who lived on the trees right above the planned radar location (Google Maps) and who eat environmentally friendly roots, insect, excrements, and dirt.

History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.

It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science.