Who is respectable when thinking himself alone and free from observation will be so before the eye of all the world.

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.

The darkness was the foundation that everything else was built on. The garden where the universe grew. The simplest, most basic thing in existence. And it was spectacular.

Never allow anyone embarrass you without your consent.

Then the glow grew brighter: a holographic golden sickle with a few sheaves of wheat, rotating just above Meg McCaffrey.A boy in the crowd gasped. "She's a communist!

The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.

I don't have all the answers. I need your help, your guidance, and your leadership to tackle the challenges before us.

This beer is good for you. This is draft beer. Stick with the beer. Let's go and beat this guy up and come back and drink some more beer.

There has always been a certain romanticism associated with the airline business. We must avoid its perpetuation at Eastern at all costs.

In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show.

If I could embed a locator chip in my child right now, I know I would do that. Some people call that Big Brother; I call it being a father.

[We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.