Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior

Emotionally we have many problems, but these problems are not actual problems; they are something created; they are problems pointed out by our self-centered ideas or views.

What it sees there isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.

What if all's appearance? Is not outside seeming real as substance inside? Both are facts, so leave me dreaming.

You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be.

The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside.

Appearance is, in fact, a matter of effect merely, and it is with the effects of nature that you have to deal, not with the real condition of the object.

There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

Words are doctors for the diseased temper.

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

Psychoanalytic insight, Miller seems to suggest, is itself a pathological symptom.

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.