Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

Teaching Ramanujan was like writing on a blackboard covered with excerpts from a more interesting lecture.

The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago, ' continued Marvin.

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

...the pain of the constant, bone-chilling loneliness she'd accustomed herself to. And learned to live with it.

Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.

Kind words and good deeds are eternal. You never know where their influence will end.

Never give up, no matter how hard life gets no matter how much pain you feel. Pain will eventually subside, nothing remains forever, so keep going and don't give up.

I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds — with God's help I catch some.

I am no longer able to be anonymous.

Without the threat of death, there's no reason to live... at all.