The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.

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.

This girl is the rest of my life.

Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing.

What passes out of one's mouth passes into a hundred ears. It is a great misfortune not to have sense enough to speak well.

Marriage isn't meant to make you happy - it's there because it gives you a life in which you can find happiness.

Take what comes your way. Do the best with it. Be responsible as you can and something good will happen.

This [Judge Samuel Alito] may be one of the most significant or consequential nominations that the Senate will vote on since I've been here in the last three decades.

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

Hope is the strongest driving force for a people. Hope which brings about change, which produces new realities, is what opens man's road to freedom.

I love to take baths.

I take a vitamin every day; it's called a steak.