Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on this earth, I wonder what good religion is.

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

The giant step in the walk of faith is the one we take when we decide God no longer is a part of our lives. He IS our life.

Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.

Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels about his work.

Remember that the more you know, the less you fear.

Giving is just one way of expressing that God has been good to you and will continue to do so through your being good to others.

Architects everywhere have recognized the need of ... a tool which may be put in the hands of creators of form, with the simple aim ... of making the bad difficult and the good easy.

Whatever organisation we try to create, it always ends up looking like the Communist Party.