Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.

Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths.

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

Make your best thoughts into action.

Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.

For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.

Fortune does not change [people], it unmasks them.

A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.

One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.

It is never permissible to say, I say.

How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed.

Grow in the grace of God.

He refused to believe in his own weaknesses, and with her he had not found a weakness to fit himself against.

If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another before you do anything you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

If you would listen to every stroke of my brush, I would never need to speak again.

There were a lot of teen stars that were very cookie-cutter... I'm just being me.

I notice that when people have no sense of responsibility, you call them either criminals or geniuses.

The opposite of love is indifference to the genuine needs of others.

Nick looked vaguely homicidal, but that was sort of his default expression.

I know you're frustrated that he's keeping you locked up like this, but don't give him too bad a time when he gets back. He loves you more than you know. It terrifies him to be away from you.