Anne laughed."I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you.

We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.

You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.

I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.

I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.

Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.

Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!

...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.

I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.

People told her she hadn't changed much, in a tone which hinted they were surprised and a little disappointed she hadn't.

Much of someone's real character lies in what they don't say about themselves.

The idea isn't to do the impossible. The idea is to show the world that if one man can do the impossible, then maybe the rest of the world can do what's possible.

The duel may go on for long, but the self-defense often wins over the self-reproach.

If General Haig is so smart, why did he finish 214th (out of 310) in his graduating class at West Point? Does that mean there are 213 generals his age who are smarter than he is?

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

You always have to create the character from the ground up.

I do not regard capital to be the enemy of labour.

We need to get back into grappling with people we disagree with if we want to restore the Republic.

For the masses who do the city's labor also keep the city's heart.

The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top.