Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Creativity and ideas fired between every synapse underneath my skin and I felt radiant from the inside out.

There is no man who is enterprising and keeps well up with the times but confesses that the women of to-day are in every respect, except political liberty, equal to the men.

Romantic Egoist What's better, an idiot who never tries... or an idiot who at least takes a shot?

A true master gives all his knowledge. But only when the student is ready.

Silence is God's first language.

A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle.

The comic book industry has turned into the wellspring for all of these movies that are all based on the comic books.

The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

English is a stretch language; one size fits all.

Each husband gets the infidelity he deserves.