Temperance adds zest to pleasure.

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them.

We live with our defects as with the odors we carry about us: we do not perceive them, but they incommode those who approach us.

We like to know the weakness of eminent persons; it consoles us for our inferiority.

The first rule for speaking well is to think well.

Politeness costs little and yields much.

One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it.

Would you be esteemed? Live with persons that are estimable.

Simplicity is oftenest an adroit pretence.

We can easily forgive want of means; but littleness, with means, is disgusting.

The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.

You can turn off the sun, but im still ganna shine!

His heart is too full, and no words to release it.

In other words, the barbaric acts carried out in this building were probably almost a matter of routine.

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.

Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy.

The tension between us kicked up a notch, and I realized that along with our bodies being nearer, so were our lips.

Art is a personal act of courage.

If you have been, I'm glad you've stopped.

It was amazing how instantaneously the choking fear vanished, amazing how suddenly the feeling of security washed over me - even before I was off the street - as soon as I heard his voice.