The more uniform a man's voice, step, manner of conversation, handwriting--the more quiet, uniform, settled, his actions, his character.

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.

Came they, in their droves, one after the other, hundred after hundred, thousand after thousand, engulfing all before them, each line a merciless wave from a boundless sea of bold men.

He makes no friends who never made a foe.

The less you look to others, the more you find in yourself.What have you found in yourself.

Their goal was in sight. They had a Titan with a very loud kitten on their side. That had to count for something.

Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.

Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

I'm really enjoying being single. I'm not even looking to meet anybody, which is so freeing.

I have great energy and I have great tasks ahead of me.

Buddha is pretty funny. Buddha is the coolest, though. If I had to go with one, I'd probably party with the Buddha.

I know all about the tyranny of women.