I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

What are men to rocks and mountains?

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

Obstinate, headstrong girl!

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

Angry people are not always wise.

How shall I ever learn who I am when there is so much of me that belongs to someone else?

If you don’t have something worth pursuing then life becomes dull and days become long

Apollo wanted out. Out of Aphrodite, out of this bathroom, out of this house, and out of this life.

Even if you don't have time for a big workout, stretching in the morning and night really changes your body.

Ham smiled. "Cett's going to be furious." Elend shrugged. "He's a paraplegic. What's he going to do? Bite us?

I held apostolic succession fully, and the channels of grace to be there only.

The world he saw was sadder than the one he hoped to find. But it wasn't near as lonesome as the one he left behind.

Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.

Eventually, I'll go back to acting, but for right now, my children are the most important thing in the world to me.

The thing about the banjo is when you first hear it, it strikes many people as what's that? There's something very compelling about it to certain people.