The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.]

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.

You’re a mess, I confess, I despise you in the best kind of way.

The power of God set us free from every sin.

We can't change yesterday, but we can change tomorrow...

We are spontaneous when we are at our genuine best.

Fighting or ignoring our dreams is not helping us because our dreams will keep us awake until the very day we say yes, so don't waist time get on with it.

You want to embrace, but I can't figure out how to hold on to it.

The greatest success in life is to feel I’m something for someone; the feeling of falling in love, the newness of love.

A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money.

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.

I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?