Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.

Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths.

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

Make your best thoughts into action.

Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.

For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.

Fortune does not change [people], it unmasks them.

Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.

A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.

One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.

It is never permissible to say, I say.

Know who you are, and be it. Know what you want, and go out and get it!

Within your light, I lose the madness.

Just remember to say THANK YOU sometimes, for all of these everyday extraordinary gifts.

My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.

The soul is the form of the body

Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms.

Things well fitted abide.

A good addiction is a contradiction in terms. Anything people can't give up or must have is not healthy, no matter what the activity.

I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.