The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself.

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.

Everybody’s gotta have somebody to step on. Makes ’em feel important.

Ideas stand in the corner and laugh while we fight over them.

In the minds of angelswe find comfortin the eye's of a smilewe find peace..

You can be this super-successful woman who's smart and effective but still feminine. When I worked in finance, I didn't always think that was possible.

But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end

If you're a capitalist and you have the best goods and they're free, you don't have to proselytize, you just have to wait.

I always had to keep improving my skills in order to remain competitive and keep winning.

It's like a spell. It's so strong I can't fight it. Is love always like this?

Today, befriend a stranger, or if you feel up to more of a challenge, befriend a loved one.

There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind