The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.

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.

If you can love yourself deeply, you will never feel alone.

Such are the brutalities of war

The Talmud says that “blessed is He who has created all these to serve me.” German politician Julius Streicher said, “It is an open secret that Jews do not work, but rather let others work for them.

Looking to advance in journalism, one future editor displayed skilled as varied as economic analysis and humorous commentary.

Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. That's one of the greatest things about life-its wonderful surprises.

As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.

If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.

She looked as though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth - or anywhere else.

A married couple that plays cards together is just a fight that hasn't started yet.

You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.