Young women that would not be thought coquettish, and old men that would not be ridiculous, should never talk of love, as if they had any concern in it.

Most frequently we make confidants from vanity, a love of talking, a wish to win the confidence of others, and to make an exchange of secrets.

The highest skill is the true judgment of values.

Deprived of the company of fools, a great wit does not seem half so clever.

However different men's fortunes may be, there is always something or other that balances the ill and the good, and makes all even at last.

The most trying fools are the bright ones.

The unbosoming oneself to another is a kind of release to the soul, which strives to lighten its burden and find ease by throwing off the weight that lay heavy upon it.

Nothing is given so willingly as advice.

More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Smile is the arch of an arrowed heartTears are waters to make pain's life start

Now, you listen, Alyssa Victoria Gardner. Normal is subjective. Don't ever let anyone tell you you're not normal. Because you are to me. And my opinion is all that matters. Got it?

Mankinds struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies.

We humans are obsessed with lights...Perhaps it is our way of hurling the constellations back at the sky.

In a world and a life that moves so fast, photography just makes the sound go out and it makes you stop and take a pause. Photography calms me.

I believe hundreds of Christian people are being deceived by Satan now on this point, that they have not got the assurance of salvation just because they are not willing to take God at His word.

If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.

I used to think that each phase of life was the end. But now that my view on life is more or less fixed, I believe that change is a great thing. In fact, it's the only real absolute in the world.

I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones.