Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

Do not judge from mere appearances.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to the rotting leaf.

She tries to wear her pain on the inside. She always has. It’s the trademark of the oldest sibling, I think.

Always use your energy to create positive experiences for yourself and others.

Truth, with a capital T, was swapped for Fact with a capital F, then both lower-cased —facts the new trues.

Truth like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil however deeply sown will make its way to the light.

It feels a lot colder when you're shoveling snow than when you're building a snow fort.

That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

I definitely have a family. I have a boyfriend who has kids, and we do normal things every day, like get up and go to school. Eat breakfast, lunch and dinner.

You are an infinite spiritual being having a temporary human experience.