The heart of a good man is the sanctuary of God in this world.

Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths.

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

Make your best thoughts into action.

Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.

For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.

Fortune does not change [people], it unmasks them.

Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.

A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.

One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.

It is never permissible to say, I say.

Be purpose oriented and remember that the ultimate source of joy is in giving

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

I always knew I didn't want kids, and I didn't want to get married.

Adults who think that children must be manipulated for their own good have developed the attitude of a controlling parent who lacks faith in himself, the child, or humanity or himself.

My hands are clean, but my heart has somewhat of impurity.

When your own romantic life is falling apart, everyone else's looks fabulous.

National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age.

If Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda had a baby, it would be Matthew Modine.

Lucidity, I maintain, is almost always desirable.