Who values gold above all, considers all else as trifling.

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 don’t want to take away anybody’s religion, but simply to make them see what religion really means.

Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.

We all have need to be trained to see, and to have our eyes opened before we can take in the joy that is meant for us in this beautiful life.

I don't know what I would have done if I had had to work for a living.

That which you worry about most in life is seldom bad, and that likely applies to dying.

Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike.

Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.

By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.

I'm not a teacher, but an awakener.

If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.