He who freely praises what he means to purchase, and he who enumerates the faults of what he means to sell, may set up a partnership with honesty.

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.

The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.

What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?

See the openness of the ocean. Now feel that your mind is more open and welcoming than that.

You have to be a really talented writer if you're trying to encapsulate a news story with a song and have it live after the event. I don't have the focus to do that, really.

Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught.

Every success is the mother of countless others.

I love you more than I can express, or can ever hope to express

To rid the world of aggression and contention is the purpose of Aikido

Providence seems to look after the chumps of this world; and, personally, I'm all for it.

... it matters not what natural endowment a race may have if it prostitutes itself to the service of death.