Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.

Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.

Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little?

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.

The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others.

What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion

Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.

Try and fail, but never fail to try!

Don't hang yourself with the slack you've been given.

Truth forever on the scaffold wrong forever on the throne.

Never complain, about the number of hours you have put in, to do a job, Your nobility must estimate how much of you Was put into each hour of your daily work

Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?

He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say, he believes that a will is already present in them (A principle of faith.)

One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a standing rebuke to them.

We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.

We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.