I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.

Don't judge a book by its cover

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!

Don't judge a book by its cover.

I looked into your eyes and was captivated by the chaos that ran through you. I wish you hadn't said all the things I wanted to hear!

These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart.

Life is worth living with fearless heart.

The most successful are not the most perfect, but the imperfect who dare to believe that they can despite the damning verdict.

It's all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then.

Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide.

Violence is like money in the bank; it's only helpful if you don't have to use it.

That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.

To me, the movie is more funny if, at the same time, you can think a little bit or dream a little bit.

My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.