Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

The doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind.

I think if a story has a message it should be incidental and accidental, otherwise it leans too close to indoctrination.

And now I'm right back where I started. Sober and miserable.

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

The utter folly of our time is lamentable, that men should think to assist God with human help and to protect the Church of Christ by worldly ambition.

The abuse of the best things is always detrimental.

All the normal matter in the Milky Way disc is denser than the dark matter that surrounds it.

In an ideal world the script is written lean and tight and therefore there are no scenes left on the cuttring room floor and therefore no extended edition.

The right to life is the first human right. Abortion is killing someone that cannot defend himself.

I would like to be Jupiter, and lie down in the firmament and make love to everybody.