God is just, and our lots are well portioned out by Him, although none, but He knows the bitterness of our souls.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

I look at [books] as a child looks at cakes - with glittering eyes and a watering mouth, imagining the pleasure that awaits him.

There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.

Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.

Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.

I dare not hope. I never was fainthearted before; but I cannot believe such a creature cares for me.

But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.

Thinking there is something better out there in the world, something worth more than you already have- of all my mistakes, that was my biggest.

Some things are not worth fighting for and some are worth dying for, Wisdom helps you understand which are which.

Creative collaboration is awesome.

You can shear a sheep a hundred times, but you can skin it only once.

The best joke-tellers are those who have the patience to wait for conversation to come around to the point where the jokes in their repertoire have application.

Cats are only human, they have their faults.

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.

Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.

Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.

That's the reality of what they're going to sell them to the Treasury for.