Successful minds work like a gimlet - to a single point.

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.

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy.Deceit is a poison in its veins.

Imagination is a glorious wonder.

The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.

The essence of health is inner balance.

It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.

Books were the sustenance of God. And His munitions.

Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand; Cold as paddocks though they be, Here I lift them up to Thee, for a benison to fall on our meat, and on us all. Amen.

You cannot have faith in people unless you take action to improve and develop them.