Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to.

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.

While there is life, there is hope.

First and foremost I am an American athlete and I am proud to live in a country that encourages diversity, openness and tolerance.

If the fools do not control the world, it isn't because they are not in the majority.

Since the Americans have ceased to have dyspepsia, they have lost the only thing that gave them any expression.

A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway.

Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour?

I play guitar and sing when I'm not busy with school and acting.

Who works for glory misses oft the goal; Who works for money coins his very soul Work for the work's sake, then, and it may be, That this thing shall be added unto thee.

Before there were unions, there was no middle class.

When I look into the crowd, I see young and old, black and white - it's amazing that I'm able to connect with so many different kinds of people.