Romance is the poetry of literature.

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.

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

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.

There are more than enoughto fight and oppose

I am tired of hearing negative words. I will supersaturate the world with positive words.

For the first time in years, I have vivid dreams, vivid enough to count the stars and the number of ripples in the sea.

When Will truly wants something,” said Jem, quietly, “when he feels something — he can break your heart.

To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.

So many self-help ideas are like meringue - you take a big bite, and there's nothing there.

My ability to keep cool in a crisis is based entirely on not knowing all the facts.

Do not worry about the past or the future. This moment needs your attention, for this is where your life exists.

Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions.

Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.