An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

Time will explain.

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.

It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

Lord, What a terrible shame. You're so attractive!'I know, I want to tell her. It should have happened to someone really ugly. And then it wouldn't have mattered.

Both for Havana's beauty and decay, it's very hard to restrain yourself from staring everywhere you look.

We should all have the opportunity to at least get a basic education and feel that you are worthy of something in life.

Age and want sit smiling at the gate.

I don't have perfect pitch, but I have relative pitch. I'm glad I don't have perfect pitch because perfect pitch can drive you crazy.

If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue.

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.

Near even a candle, the visible heat. So it is with a person in love.

Stop it. Seriously. This isn't funny.' 'You're right.' A pause. 'It's pathetic.