He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.

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.

Time heals nothing. It only brings other issues and tissues, and takes what is incurable or unacceptable out of the center of our attention.

Work for what you want, pray for what you need and fight for what you've always dreamt about.

For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself, and unless and until the hearers find God in personal experience they are not the better for having heard the truth.

No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text.

Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.

The economic owning class is always the political ruling class.

I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.

I have observed that as long as one lives and bestirs himself, he can always find food and raiment, though it may not be of the choicest description.

The water is clearer than the air, and the air is the air that angels breathe.