Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.

You can have all the agents and publicists in the world but no one's ever going to give you 110 per cent like someone who loves you.

It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure.

It's lucky it's dark. I haven't blushed so much since Madam Pomfrey told me she liked my new earmuffs.

I often think about my Music Man guitars being 100 million percent tailored to my needs as a player and how lucky I am.

There were a lot of teen stars that were very cookie-cutter... I'm just being me.

You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready.

The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun.

Statistics have proven that the surest way to get anything out of the public mind and never hear of it again is to have a Senate committee appointed to look into it.