We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.

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.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

I will be really happy once I have done my jail time. I can start fresh.

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

The only solution is to kill 600 people in one night. Let the UN and Bill Clinton and everyone else make a scene - and it is over for 20 years.

I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.

A lower interest rate doesn't make a debt go away.

Theres nothing more romantic than Italian food.

He's so cute, I can't help myself.

The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.

When you understand the Atonement, then you understand the joy of being rescued.