Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?

You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Sensibility is the power of woman.

There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.

The author observes the shift now that children are not a source of labor for the family, that they have gone from employees of the parents to the bosses of the parents.

Enjoyment is not a goal it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.

I keep waiting to be invited to the hip hop party, I've never been. So if there's anyone out there who is having a hip hop party, I'd like to come.

If you can't say yes, it's no. Don't sugarcoat it. Don't talk yourself into yes just to seem like a nice guy. No one ever went broke because he or she said "NO" too often.

So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department.

I cannot think of a better definition of Christianity than that: give, give, give.

Some sad news from Australia... the inventor of the boomerang grenade died today.

The movies are celluloid hemorrhoids. No, worse: They're celluloid Bon Jovi.

Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet.