But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

I will not talk of my own happiness, ' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?

Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.

…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.

You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm.It's really funny.

Knowledge if churned like milk, results in the butter of wisdom.

Don't celebrate how old you are, celebrate the years you survived.

All the backs in the history of this game are the same when there isn't any hole to run through.

As with most things in life, Lady Maccon preferred the civilized exterior to the dark underbelly (with the exception of pork products, of course.)

Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising.

There were lots of things to stop and see-and then it was time to go, always time to go.

I have always striven to fix beauty in wood, stone, glass or pottery, in oil or watercolor by using whatever seemed fittest for the expression of beauty, that has been my creed.

Yes it is better to keep training even if your muscle is still sore.

But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.