But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.

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

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

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.

God is willing to help you with the rain if only you can sow your crops.

If love and beauty were easy to find, they would not exist.Chaos and sadness exist in order for you to find the love and beauty in them. So that love and beauty mean something.It's meant to be hard.

More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries.

But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.

A full belly neither fights nor flies well.

One man interacting creatively with others can move the world.

I have one of those real old American built cars. The kind that just PUNCHES through accidents.

It's an odd feeling, knowing someone is trying to kill you. On the front line, you learn quickly that if you're in the path of a bullet, you will get hit.

Kindness only goes so far, and then it's time to show your claws.

I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.