Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

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 wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world's future.

People drift from generation to generation, and the morally unthinkable becomes thinkable as the years move on.

The wolf's clear, intelligent eyes brushed mine. The wolf is gentle-hearted. Not noble, not cowardly, just nonfighting.

The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup.

The Greatest Generation got to save old tires, dig a Victory Garden and forgo sugar. The Richest Generation is being asked to shop.

For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.

Bush humble foreign policy was hijacked into nation-building.