And still, laughter is akin to weeping.

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.

A man can lose everything except the will to choose how to react when faced with life challenges.

I am longing for you in life and in deathAs the moon is longing for night and life is longing for breath

Soprano basso even the contralto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.

We need a great president.

There is something wrong with you if you don't get angry about something.

In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong, Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong.

There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. —MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

But today, I feel the genuine warmth, the affection, and although I may joke about it, I am touched.

Yes, I do touch. I believe that everyone needs that

I'm gonna live like tomorrow doesn't exist.