He cannot endure Rachel, because he knows she has a proper appreciation of him.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one’s anger.

There is perfect love in Heaven!

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

But where hope rises, fear must lurk behind.

You don't need superpowers to be someones hero

Not to discover the love of God is to be lost in life

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

It's what we do for each other that heals.

I will never be able to move on as much as people would like me to.

Memories contain hidden editorials on current events.

I didn't choose poetry: poetry chose me.

I want love and I won't settle for less

And while we are on the subject of medication you always need to look at risk versus benefit.

In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.