Malice is poisoned by her own venom.

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.

It is only those that live intentionally that can accomplish and come to the significance meant for them.

One must not align himself with the beliefs that limit his thinking

America needs to relearn a lost discipline, self-confident relentlessness...

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true

why is the word 'qualified' applied only to those who have to be more so?

I learned to win by learning to lose- that means not being afraid of losing.

The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.

When one approach is not working to reach the desired goal, that's not a reason to abandon the goal. Instead, it is time to devise another approach.

We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.