The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

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.

Every moment nature is serving fresh dishes with the items of happiness. It is our choice to recognize and taste it.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

What can happen in 30 years? A senator can become a multi-millionaire in public office.

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

Whatever happens, you can always make it back somehow!

The perceptual body that you are at the time of death ceases to be. It is not structured quite so tightly.

I'd rather not do anything. Guys want you more when you don't. Young girls should know that.

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.