Words are the wings of actions.

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.

Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.

I've realized that being happy is a choice.

...a distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings.

What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough.

The songs come along at their own pace when they are ready.

Fame is fleeting, honey. Fame is fleeting and it changes.

What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.

You're love is nothing I can't fight. Can't sleep with a man who dims my shine.