Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.

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.

The best thing about being an author is the unspoken approval to dream while awake.

How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

It's amazing the hours you pull when you're the lead of a show.

You can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Coming to the civil rights movement in the twentieth century, we begin to have this idea that's still with us today, which is that the main purpose of public education is closing achievement gaps.

She is my first and only love. Most people know that their first love will not be their only love. But for me, she is both.

There is no way to stabilize the markets other than through government intervention.

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.

We will never recognize the true value of our own lives until we affirm the value in the life of others.

A garden is never finished.