He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.

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.

An evil spark flared in his eyes. "Trade: raccoon for some answers.

objectivity is subjective

The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one's own strength but in the exploitation of the other side's weaknesses.

I ought to warn you, dear, he can get rather wild when he’s hungry

Some guys fall in love with one girl, I gotta fall for two.

Nature soothes us. Nature heals us, and something more, the woods are a place of power.

I ran rather than walked, anxious to lose my way. All I wanted was to be unsure.

Agreements are always the product of time and place.

If the land of make believe is inside your heart it will never leave.

You can't stop a reform in the middle. You do it completely and pretty fast, or you don't do it.