Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.

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.

A decent man would stand out like a cactus on an ice floe.

There is so much we do not know about the imagination. That is why we must study it.

There's things that have no finish, Scully, no ending to speak of. There's no justice to it, but that's the God's truth. The only end some things have is the end you give em.

This is the power of a kiss: It does not have the power to kill you. But it has the power to bring you to life.

There is a lot of relief for daters who are serious about wanting to be in a relationship. This comes in the form of what appears to be dramatic changes like speed dating and Internet dating.

To fix our immigration system, we must change our leadership in Washington and we must change it quickly. Sadly, sadly there is no other way.

Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war.

I am for joining a free trade zone. The European Union is not such zone, but a zone of raging bureaucracy which stears every hectolitre of wine, and every tone of beef.

Do you remember when you told me I couldn't see myself clearly? You obviously have the same blindness

In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.