Elegance is exquisite polish.

Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths.

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

Make your best thoughts into action.

Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.

For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.

Fortune does not change [people], it unmasks them.

Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.

A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.

One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.

It is never permissible to say, I say.

Let your whisper shake the ground

You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.

The next day the two sisters went to the ball, and so did Cinderella, but dressed more magnificently than before. The King's son was always by her side, and his pretty speeches to her never ceased.

You aren't going to stick around long with just two pitches

A spirit of restlessness and resistance can never wait, but one who believes he is loved with an everlasting love, and knows that underneath are the everlasting arms, will find strength and peace.

One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.

Creativity is the life force that Dylan Thomas called 'the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.

I have met the soul walking upon my path.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true.

Man without compassion is the coldest thing ever in the universe!