“Truth is most beautiful undraped.”

No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.

Fate shuffles the cards and we play.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

To be alone is the fate of all great minds – a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

Each day is a little life.

Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts or leave it.

Genius lives only one story above the madness.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

Life is a constant process of dying.

I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.

I’m really proud of myself because I’ve pared my beauty regimen down to a cream blush and berry-tinted lip balm, which has saved me so much time.

True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.

Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

Money… is like a beautiful thoroughbred horse – very powerful & always in action, but unless this horse is trained when very young, it will be an out-of-control & dangerous animal when it grows to maturity.

I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love…I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.

You’re as beautiful as the moon in the wilderness of the moon.