The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?

You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.

Sensibility is the power of woman.

Though you should still let her do what she wants, don't let her take total control of you or you won't be making the most of your experience.

Distance matters only when you fail to cover it through your mind

Scars are an affirmation of living.

What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.

I don't watch too much TV when it comes to sports or news or things like that.

Then again, Solomon was human. And that meant he was flawed (Go on, take a look at yourself in the mirror. A good long look, if you can bear it. See? Flawed's putting it mildly, isn't it?)

You ought to be able to grow up in a place and not have to get the hell out of it when you turn eighteen.

Don't cling to anything. Clinging is the cause of our being unconscious.

The fool has set in his heart that he can get more money through the tiring of his muscle and the starvation of his brain-but he can't.