How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed.

Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths.

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

Make your best thoughts into action.

Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.

For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.

Fortune does not change [people], it unmasks them.

Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.

A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.

One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.

It is never permissible to say, I say.

there is no understanding between me and this worldthey don't understand me and i don't care them.

Unlike grownups children have little need to deceive themselves.

Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

We just need to relax and rejoice in our divine differences. We need to realize that we all desire to serve in the kingdom, using our unique talents and gifts in our own ways.

Spokes are one of those Saturn-system phenomena that we are keenly interested in understanding.

Generosity is the best investment.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty of sense, and keep the heart awake to love and beauty.