Wisdom

Sanity is very rare every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

Being broken is to try break a law.

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

Ger says that Kat has a tendency to push things to extremes, to go over the edge, merely from a juvenile desire to shock, which is hardly a substitute for wit. One of these days, he says, she will go way too far. Too far for him, is what he means.

Dominicans are in fact, Haitians by default.Since the natives named the whole island named Haïti, stop being a dolt.

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds.

You don't know a woman until you have had a letter from her.

There is machinery in the mind that is consciousness. Knowing the machine is the dawn of a new era.

Science is to be much commended for the ingenuity, the patience, and the persistency it displays in the invention of instruments wherewith to ferret out the secrets of nature.

Sometimes you just have to die a little inside in order to be reborn and rise again as a stronger and wiser version of you..!!

The rarity of what you hold is more powerful than you can imagine. It is a gift for humanity and the most lethal curse to the vampires.

It is in the interests of both sexes to hear the other sex's experience of powerlessness.

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

And how does one basically recognize good development? In that a well-developed man does our senses good: that he is carved from wood which is hard, delicate, and sweet-smelling, all at the same time.

Invoking the moral high ground somehow makes you lose it. Using a secret as a weapon makes you almost as bad as the transgressor.

Your treasure chest is your mind.

In retrospect, I would have to recommend against epiphanies. They are difficult on an emotional level, and they also sometimes move you to foolish and inopportune acts, which was what happened in my case.

In his opinion, all the world’s misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness.

There is no adversity that cannot bear a gift and no gift that cannot bring adversity.

Don’t interfere with false gods, you’ll get the gold paint all over your hands.