I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.

The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.

Die without me if you will. Live for me if you dare.

It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.

Misery generates hate.

Remorse is the poison of life.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Liberty lends us her wings and Hope guides us by her star.

Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.

Look twice before you leap.

Your will shall decide your destiny.

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.

Beauty is in the eye of the gazer.