Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

What are men to rocks and mountains?

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

Obstinate, headstrong girl!

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

As food is to the body, so is The Word to the Spirit of a disciple

There's a transparent face that looks deep into my eyes, baring my soul, right before terror consumes me and the image becomes a black mass of horror.

We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams come true.

The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering.

Golf is a game not just of manners but of morals.

Beauty, I believe, comes from God; therefore, there can be no beauty without goodness.

Somehow when you see a politician kiss a baby, shake a hand -- kiss anything -- it is tainted.

Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.

Life is seductive, yet so few allow themselves to be seduced.

The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.