The heart is never neutral.

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

To love the public, to study universal good, and to promote the interest of the whole world, as far as lies within our power, is the height of goodness, and makes that temper which we call divine.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth.

It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self examiner.

There is a melancholy which accompanies all enthusiasm.

The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in his greatest concern thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied, and of which he is most profoundly ignorant.

Men of sense are really all of one religion. But men of sense never tell what it is.

Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.

Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule.

Men's first thoughts in this matter are generally better than their second; their natural notions better than those refin'd by study, or consultation with casuists.

Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

You can’t believe in your dreams if you don’t believe in the giver of the dreams. In all things, put God first. He is willing to put you ahead for excellence!

...to alienate human beings from their own decision-making is to change them into objects.

It's not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made them believe.

I don't approach fashion; fashion approaches me!

I hope I have important things to say.

Of what use the friendliest disposition even, if there are no hours given to Friendship, if it is forever postponed to unimportant duties and relations? Friendship first, Friendship last.

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.

The boy in the pearl gray suit could have been Jane's twin. His hair was darker, and his lips were not as full, but he was just as lovely.