Pure motives do not insure perfect results.

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.

Don’t live your life not knowing what to do with your time.

Never let a day be your control factor

What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

A man who rightly governs self, may also govern family without the crippling cowardice, crutch of control.

I'm from Southern California, so I feel much more comfortable with a golf club in my hand than I do a weapon.

Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table.

Madonna looked amazing. I can't believe she's 89 and looks like that.

Now the last red ray is gone; Now the twilight shadows hie.

Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.