Far better one unpurchased heart than glory's proudest name.

There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

Reason is not time only interpreter of life. The fountain of action is in time feelings.

There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an indefinable, and, as it were, luxurious sadness, which is perhaps one element of its might.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.

The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession.

National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius.

Fashion seldom interferes with nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency.

To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than to attempt to fully understand.

Do not give to thy friends the most agreeable counsels, but the most advantageous.

Channeled correctly and integrated properly, our diversity can be our greatest strength.

While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.

We can trust ourselves to know when our boundaries are being violated.

I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

I like a girl who spend a little cash for her shoes.

It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.

When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me.

If God is watching your every move, you should probably straighten up your act a little bit.