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.

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.

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

When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one’s anger.

There is perfect love in Heaven!

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

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

When we know Him, we can be sure God hears our prayers.

Hearing those words, I instinctively turn to my new keeper, regretting it, because for only the third time in my entire existence, tears are streaming down my cheeks.

Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.

There's really no honor in proving that you can carry the entire load on your own shoulders. Andit's lonely.

Price. You're priceless.

On the basis of both values and interests, the natural relationship between Islam and the United States is one of friendship.

I think it is good escapist entertainment even though it's bad.

It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.

The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.