Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.

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.

It's hard to love a woman and do anything.

War is not nice.

All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.

I was made to be where I'm at. I just had to go through some challenges, so that I can educate others later.

I believe in invisible; I do not believe in visible.

Victory breeds hatred; the defeated live in pain. The peaceful live happily, giving up victory and defeat.

Everyone starts out with a little self, and it costs everything to move past that little self. It costs the life of the little self to be the life within that's deeper than that little self.

Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living.

I was a kid who was really unhappy with being bussed. I was one of the angry people in the halls.

Don't die without embracing the daring adventure your life is meant to be.