In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

What a complex foamy mixture a couple is. Even if the relationship shatters and ends, it continues to act in secret pathways, it doesn't die, it doesn't want to die.

dont look at someone and wish to be them because you dont know if someone else is looking at you and wishing to be you

Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy tales, " she told me. "It doesn't save us. We have to save ourselves.

Well, that's what I still think, but I am in a rut at work--I hate my job, ' I said, allowing my emotions to find words.

No matter how unfamiliar my world becomes, I can always find my way home when I dance.

Man's character is the product of his premises.

A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.

If I lose, I lose. Ill do it on my terms.

I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast

There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.