Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.

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.

Enlighten every life with love to shine.

They Learn to speak... and when they were at level "AVERAGE", they started making the rules and starting to shout.

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

If I were ever to go mad it would be on Thanksgiving Day, that day of guilt and grace when the family hangs upon you like an ax over a sacrificial victim, like the oven's heat on that poor bird.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous.

I carry a golf ball to put under my feet when they get tight, and a Thera-Band for general stretching.

The cynics were watchdogs terrifying malefactors. They tried to expose falseness and conceit. That's why their name is still spoken with a snarl.

I believe in eating all the right kinds of foods, and I don't believe in a totally nonfat diet.

I am blessed or cursed, depending on how you look at it, with an incurably restless spirit and the ability to work hard.