When all else is lost the future still remains.

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.

His eyes missed her as much as the rest of him.

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

The United States is using its war on drugs as an excuse to expand its control over Latin America.

The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm.

One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted

The listener is the midwife in the difficult birth of the word.

The most transformative and gentle humility and pride. But they transform in opposite ways.

Ever notice Hulk Hogan ain't got no hair on his chest? The only one who's got hair on their chest on their team is Cindy Lauper.

If you wish, I shall grow irreproachably tender: not a man, but a cloud in trousers!