Who affects useless singularities has surely a little mind.

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.

True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.

I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person.

...It also taught me that while cruelty can be fun for a few moments, compassion has a much longer shelf life.

Indignation is often the best defense.

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.

And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength.

The pencil-stroke is like cutting into the heart.

Find your passion, and it's no longer work.

Key shaved off the right (side) this time, so next it'll be the center.

I believe that the most essential element of our defense of freedom is our insistence on speaking out for the cause of religious liberty.