Instruction would be wasted on me. Just to give me the form and I'll sign on the dotted line.

I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.

No one is ever holy without suffering.

The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!

Aunt Fanny tells me you made great friends with Mr. Mottram. I'm sure he can't be very nice.''I don't think he is, ' said Julia. 'I don't know that I like nice people

Do you want to change?" "It's the only evidence of life.

When the waterholes were dry, people sought to drink at the mirage.

Oh, my darling, why is it that love makes me hate the world? It's supposed to have quite the opposite effect. I feel as though all mankind, and God, too, were in a conspiracy against us.

If she looked further than the wedding, it was to see marriage as the beginning of individual existence, this skirmish from which one one's spurs, from which one set out on the true quests of life.

If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...

I’ve always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can’t shut myself out from His mercy.

Truth is dangerous.

Be wise enough to forgive but don't be foolish enough to trust again.

Believe in the strength of your own resolve.

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.

I pride myself on being incorrigible. I have a very hard time being told what to do.

Remember that adversity presents us with numerous possibilities for success, if we are just willing to see them.

There is the churning and the boiling of the sea, and the foam on top of it and that is what man is, churning and foam together.

We should take as a maxim never to be surprised at current difficulties, no more than at a passing breeze, because with a little patience we shall see them disappear. Time changes everything.

Most of the great problems we face are caused by politicians creating solutions to problems they created in the first place.