It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit.

Only the Saviour saves.

I have nothing to compain about. I am here to enjoy the breathtaking beauty of nature.

Fame or perceived success - it all comes from groupthink.

Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.

It's not that we didn't get along, it's just that my mother-in-law is very objective. She objected to everything I did.

No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.

But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

Whenever you get game adaptations, it strikes me that it's always the gamers who get mugged because they try and make it for everyone else first and the actual gamers last.

Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.