How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.

I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.

To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

There is no accounting for tastes.

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Never will I give my hand where my heart does not accompany it.

Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.

The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!

Jenny was struck again by the contrast between his attractiveness and his shyness. It was endearing.

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.

I am 46, and have been for some time past.

I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.

O have a care of natures that are mute!

If you don't get it right with your first family, you can always do it again with another.

It's been the same since caveman days, this game of love - they just changed the trumps from clubs to diamonds.

I feel like I'm at a level in my business where I've established myself as a professional. And the one thing I haven't managed to do is find a way to achieve a better balance.

The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us, like the kingdom of heaven, rather than without.