If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?

Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.

Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.

A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.

She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.

In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.

In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends...

It doesn't hurt to get more education.

Because family and friends are the foundation of who you are, this is a realm where no excuses should exist. Give them your all without excuses.

You want her in every quadrant like a desperate fool.

In the sense of Lewis, I am a moderately 'good man'".~R. Alan Woods [2012]

She trusted him. Her heart knew him.And her body wanted him.

If I wasn't an actor, I would probably be writing or doing something with psychology.

I think to love somebody every day for a long period of time is the most romantic thing you can do.

From all that I have seen, I am more than ever convinced that art must communicate, and it must represent, describe and express people, their lives and times.

Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .

You have to 'be'' before you can 'do', and do before you can 'have'.