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

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.

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.

Two years hence you will be as calm as I am now, - and far, far happier, I trust, for you are a man and free to act as you please

I actually like how doctors talk. I like the sound of science. I like how words you don't understand explain things you can't understand.

Studies have shown that thinking and wondering lead to thoughtful decision-making. It's an epidemic.

Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them.

Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.

After twenty years you can begin to be sure of what camera will do.

Brown shoes don't make it.

Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead, life into life itself.

Our faults are apt to assume giant and exaggerated forms to our eyes in youth.

Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.

To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.