Civility cost nothing.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Solitude begets whimsies.

Though such authority and respect shouldn't be handed to all and sundry, have in caution's innermost room a confidant, a faithful mirror, whose correction you value when disillusionment is necessary.

I support the state, but not the state-run economy. The state should intervene only to create the conditions necessary for the private sector to thrive.

The illusion of perfection is an illusion anyway.

Only in the shattering can the rebuilding occur

Tomorrow you will say Donald Trump wants to get along with Russia, this is terrible! It's not terrible. It's good.

The end of this world occurs when you move from one world into another, from one reality into another.

Flirt!'s mascara is insane - I don't need false lashes when I wear it.

Don't lose your happiness on the pursuit for more

Misfortunes should always be expected.

I can still boss people around. I can still write. I can still read. I can still eat, and I can still have very strong views.