He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.

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.

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love

In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different.

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face. A gauntlet with a gift in't.

I don't need to be wildly famous for my life to make sense.

Night will always remain a cat's magical, fanciful time.

I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I'm repeating something I'm good at. So I'm always looking for new challenges.

When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.

She waited for you in a thousand different ways.

We should be guided by theory, not by numbers.

And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief.