Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

Time will explain.

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.

It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

I laugh. Yer crazy, I says.I was fine till I met you, he says.

Letting goI can have a firm foundationTo honor youAnd hold you in my heart

We are not forgiven because we are good. We are forgiven because Christ bore our sins.

You have to give them unconditional love. They need to know that even if they screw up, you love them. You don't want them to grow up and resent you or, even worse, parent the way you parented them.

Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence.

How come nobody wants to argue with me? Is it because I'm always so right?

Those not present are always wrong.

Mistakes remember'd are not faults forgot.

The point we emphasize is strong confidence in our original nature.