How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!

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.

Only you are responsible for your life and for your life and making it a happy life

I've learned that sometimes a smile represents the greatest form of deceit.

The audience might not be the size of Facebook, but how much time can you spend online and think, 'What did I just learn?

We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.

As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness.

The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.

Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.

How Cable survived Second Coming and what his responsibility is to his daughter, Hope, may have something to do with the Avengers.

I don't think I've ever had a plan or direction for myself. I've actually made decisions based more on what I didn't want to do than what I wanted to do.

It's just the way things are. And you can't dwell on what might have been. You have to look at what is.