Trust him with none of thy individualities who is, or pretends to be, two things at once.

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.

The Bible is the greatest literature of all times.

Failure makes the success worth it.

The extraordinary's the norm.

We must consider teaching the Egyptian revolution in schools.

There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth.

If her security rests upon her alliance with a man, another woman may take that man away; therefore women have no unity between themselves.

But, is it possible for princes and ministers to be enlightened, when private individuals are not so?

I try to keep up, and the scientific perspective is always part of my creative approach.

His eyes were cold and brown - like coffee stains.

I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?