Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.

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.

I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in being alone and using my imagination.

To do a romantic scene is the most unromantic thing to do on screen.

The inventory, the value of my company, walks out the door every evening.

Every once in awhile, when you can see shades of the person's real interior life, I think that's interesting.

Marriages may come and go, but the game must go on.

Nonexistence. The society of the nonexistent. In the street yesterday a nonexistent person trod on my foot with his nonexistent foot.

Although only one man may be receiving the favors of a woman, all men in her presence are warmed.

Facts interest me less than the trailing smoke of stories.

Up to this point White has been following well-known analysis. But now he makes a fatal error: he begins to use his own head

If you don't know how compilers work, then you don't know how computers work.