He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.

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.

She had walked to the brink, abandoning all belief, and just before the bitter end, she was pulled from the abyss by faith.

People don't trade money for things when they value their money more highly than they value the things.

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin except to be there when he doesn't want her.

If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans...

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

I believe that consistently we need to look for good, and not for evil, that when we look for evil we call up evil, while heaven comes closer when we acknowledge it.

I think people never hear what they say, and speech is a mocking sound instead of a jazz concert.

On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.

Because gold is honest money it is disliked by dishonest men.