A spirit of candor and frankness, when wholly unaccompanied with coarseness, headmired in others, but he could not acquire it himself.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one’s anger.

There is perfect love in Heaven!

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

But where hope rises, fear must lurk behind.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools

I think I've far exceeded what I ever thought I could possibly do. I'm almost shocked that I'm still around after all of these years . . . and always grateful that I get another turn to do something.

Short term satisfaction will never lead to something timeless.

I love the success of my teammates more than my individual achievements. I've just always cared more about that since I started playing.

It's true, of course, humor is very important in my life, as you know. That's the only reason for living, in fact.

Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.

I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell.

Anyone can be happy when times are good; the richer experience is to be happy when times are not

Wars are begun by frightened men.

The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.