Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

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.

Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.

God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

I was so happy I didn't have to work that night. That was the truth, because show business is about the hardest profession in the world.

The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame, And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame.

The Internet is not a thing, a place, a single technology, or a mode of governance. It is an agreement.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.

When you're born with a tail, you learn to go through doors fast.

If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.

I've always been curious about the psychology of the person behind the mask. When someone is anonymous, it opens the door to all kinds of antisocial behavior, as seen by the Ku Klux Klan.

To exercise is human; not to is divine.