The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

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.

Human race should have a common goal and that is to establish infinite peace in this world which we call home.

You don’t have to affirm the positive after you have released a negative belief!

She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.

in this room the hours of love still make shadows.

We are these people, wistful, ironical, wilful, who have no part in new-world reconstruction, in the confederacy of labour.

Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by.

Quentin Crisp said it to me; now I say it to you: say yes to everything.

Sometimes the shadow stays next to the Light. Sometimes it disappears into the Light

The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.

Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large companies.