Christianity has been cruel in much to the human race. It has quenched much of the sweet joy and gladness of life; it has caused the natural passions and affections of it to be held as sins.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

It is real hard work that will release your potential.

I committed my life to Christ, and that faith has been most important to me ever since.

Must being in love always mean being in pain?

I guess in society there's no place for women in their older thirties. We're supposed to go sit on a shelf at some point... and wait.

God's love is not wearied by our sins & is relentless in its determination that we be cured at whatever cost to us or Him

I don't mean to sound like a cheap prostitute, but you can call me what you like.

Life is too short. It's too precious. We have to live in this world, but we don't have to wallow in it. We don't have to fill our lives with all of this darkness.

I am obsessed with ice cubes. Obsessed.

The only thing hard about being an actor is being out of work. So, when you get a job - that part ain't hard at all.

Although Mr. Trump talks an interesting and entertaining game, rarely do I hear him lay out specifics.