I’ll tell you a piece of news--I hope you have not heard it before: for good, bad, or indifferent, one always likes to be the first to tell.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one’s anger.

There is perfect love in Heaven!

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

But where hope rises, fear must lurk behind.

Make love an another human compulsion and you will fortify its limitation. Acquire it like knowledge and you will understand everything

I know there will be spring as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.

We shouldn’t have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women.

God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.

Whites they pretended to ignore, as they busily lived mirror-image white lives.

Adversity is an effective, thorough and highly personalized teacher.

I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.

Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.