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

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.

I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.

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.

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.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.

The shadows are as important as the light.

What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.