All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.

To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light an idea, as it were, into the understanding of another.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

Modesty and chastity are twins

Vengeance is waste of time

When you see zombies, they're typically in a horde. A big group close together, as if they were just holding hands before you saw them and they quickly let go.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

I am a moderate walker, however I never stroll back.

The trouble is that as women we try to take care of everybody else before we take care of ourselves.

People will remember you better if you always wear the same outfit.

Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.

Isola doesn't approve of small talk and believes in breaking the ice by stomping on it.

No one really likes Switzerland, except those who prefer cleanliness to life.