Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together.

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.

I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.

A gym for the soul is a place where personal investment is required and the return is real.

I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.

Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.

The melancholia of everything completed!

Live deliberately. Decide: are you the kind of person things happen to, or the kind of person who makes things happen?

It is satisfaction to a man to do the proper works of a man.

Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain. . . .

Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n' roll.

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.