How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!

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.

We are a noisy and blessed little family

Fundamentally, what all forms of positive thinking about collapse come down to is our own fear of death.

Some guy hit my fender the other day and I said unto him "Be fruitful and multiply." But not in those words.

I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.

Education beats the beauty and the youth.

I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.

I really like to cook and have dinner parties and I like to clean, it really clears my head and it makes me feel good to keep my home as a comfortable place.

As he left to answer the call, she heard him exclaiming in wonderment on the rise. "Rocks, Nash. Is that a river mare out there? Do you see her? Have you ever laid eyes on a more gorgeous creature?

The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.

I started out in clubs, and I've always liked clubs. I like theaters because people are there for the show.