There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.

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.

Science is a kind of worship to find the truth.

Recovery can take place only within then context of relationships

To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.

There is no sincerity like a woman telling a lie.

At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.

girls forbidden to dance would only attract husbands with bad complexions and sunken chests.

I don't really think about film or television or going directly to the internet. I just think about doing something that people are going to get excited about.

Only the right name gives beings and things their reality. A wrong name makes everything unreal. That's what lies do.

Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.