Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.

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.

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.

My parents were teachers and they went out of their way to see to it that I had books. We grew up in a home that was full of books. And so I learned to read. I loved to read.

A great democratic revolution is taking place in our midst.

The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.

So that's what's going on right now, and I'm looking to put out an album within the next six months.

Let no man break the laws of the land, for he that keepeth the laws of God hath no need to break the laws of the land.

Rigorous teaching schedules combined with mounds of paperwork can lead to burnout.

When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily reminder that women get to be funny.

I don't feel like my speed or my power or my desire to play this game has diminished at all.