Half talent is no talent.

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.

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

Sensibility is the power of woman.

Creativity isn't about avoiding frustration. It's about pushing through and coming out the other side.

Success is accomplishment of daily work.

She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn't help wondering from what direction.

Never hurry and never worry!

What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?

I do not think that I could ever really love a woman who had not, at one time or another, been up on a broomstick.

If I could walk into the 'Friends' audition again and go or not go, I have to say it's 50-50.

In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part.

I instinctively try to protect people from filth.

I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy's door.