We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

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.

Each of us, A CEll Of Awareness... imperfect, and incomplete.Genetic blends, with uncertain ends.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

What I care the most is what I can do for people. I am not into it for recognition; if it comes it will happen out of my own effort.

In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.

An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.

Love, Fear, and Esteem, - Write these on three stones.

One of my problems is to find the self.

Music has no limits of a life-span.

For each believes his glimm'ering lamp to be the gorgeous light of day.

If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren't looking within.