The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave.

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.

Positives can always be found in anything that is faced as long as the correct attitude can be maintained.

Past has a very great superiority over the future: The future may not exist

Women love with their ears, men with their eyes.

Observing stupidity in others is a sure sign of stupidity in the observer.

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

Whatever hath been written shall remain, Nor be erased nor written o'er again; The unwritten only still belongs to thee: Take heed, and ponder well what that shall be.

I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

The small prayers of weak and broken people move the heart of God.

I think fate is massive, and it's never really had its place among forces we respect as having control over us.