Curses are like processions. They return to the place from which they came.

If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.

The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.

Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue.

A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it.

Husband and wife,--so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!

Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.

Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.

Offended self-love never forgives.

Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past.

Stories first heard standing at a mother's knee, are never wholly forgotten, — a little spring that never quite dries up in our journey through scorching years.

I would argue that in any habitable zone that doesn't boil or freeze, intelligent life is going to emerge because intelligence is convergent.

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

For those who live by faith, the cross is a treasure more valuable than gold and precious stones.

I made the record, and I sent it over to Jay Brown, who was working on Rihanna's album. He was like, "Send me that record for Rihanna."

Well, my smile's pretty hard to miss, considering I'm a gal who likes her lipstick-the redder the better.

Adapting a book is essentially a collaboration, whether the author is alive or dead.

Just as I went into politics because Joe died, if anything happened to me tomorrow, my brother Bobby would run for my seat in the Senate. And if Bobby died, Teddy would take over for him.

I love the dignity in the name Philadelphia, but at heart, we're Philly.

I never have written every day. When I'm writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity.

I don't feel too excited about fashion today People just want cheap fast clothes and are happy to look like everyone else