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

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

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

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!

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!

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly.

When you discover how to love yourself unconditionally, you would never desperately wait around for someone to fulfill your life.

David what your mother did to you was wrong. Verry wrong.No child deserves to be treated like that. She's sick.

For me anyway when a photograph is interesting, it's interesting because of the kind of photographic problem it states - which has to do with the contest between content and form.

I don't use old music.

Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related.

All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.

If she and Sam ever had kids, they'd be gluten-intolerant out of self-defence.

All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn remains Our Tanelorn remains.

A life like Nixon's is filled with shame and filled with glory. He loved to quote Teddy Roosevelt: "He was a man; sometimes right, sometimes wrong, but he was a man." I love that line.