Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.

Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths.

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

Make your best thoughts into action.

For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.

Fortune does not change [people], it unmasks them.

Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.

A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.

One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.

It is never permissible to say, I say.

How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed.

No.’ Dorren shifted onto his knees, leaning towards her. ‘This is just the beginning, you’ll see. You are his weakness and you will ruin everything.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

For me, singing was real life, not two plus two equals four.

What is the purpose of life? I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy.

Colour is a human need like water and fire. It is a raw material indispensable to life

Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .

I wanna be the best, simple and plain

I like it if people enjoy what I'm doing, but if they don't, I also like it. I sometimes really like aggravating people with what I do. I think it's good for them.

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

There are no short cuts to Heaven, only the ordinary way of ordinary things.