Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.

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.

Everyone has got something to gift. Your gift lies in the flame of your soul.

That girl is just plain crazy, " Chey said as she looped her arm through Arkadia's. 'I swear when they were handing out social skills she was still in the line for shoes.

All excess is ill but drunkeness is of the worst sort. It spoils health dismounts the mind and unmans men. It reveals secrets is quarrelsome lascivious impudent dangerous and bad.

Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.

Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

We don't reach the light through endless analysis of the dark. We reach the light by choosing the light.

Pigs eat more tuna than all the planet's sharks combined.

I've been a loyal person all my life and I'd like to finish my career here