I will not talk of my own happiness, ' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.

…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.

When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

Along the road of life are many pleasure resorts, but think not that by tarrying in them you will take more days to the journey. The day of your arrival is already recorded.

Anything that offers hope has the potential to heal.

What drives passion for getting the gospel to all people is not guilt, it's glory.

The grudge you hold on to is like a hot coal that you intend to throw at someone, only you're the one who gets burned.

I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport.

If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.

Man needs two important things: Firstly, to know the truths; secondly, to change them if they are not ideal!

The Niger Delta is an occupied territory. Citizens raise their hands in the creeks each time they see the military

I don't like the kind of writer who's out to change the world and beat up on people for their own good. Stalin did that and Hitler did that, and to hell with them.