It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!

One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.

I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.

To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted.

How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

There is no accounting for tastes.

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Never will I give my hand where my heart does not accompany it.

Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.

I'm the kind of person who always likes to be doing something.

Treat objections as requests for further information.

Have you seen a room from which faith has gone? Like a marriage from which love has gone. And patience, patience everywhere like a fog.

Right is not only to act within the law. It's to also act according to the conscience.

I took my kids everywhere. I didn't have money for child care, so I took them to college with me and they sat in the hallway.

I can't believe a guy that handsome wouldn't have some impact.

Even in the darkness, every color can be found. And every day of rain brings water flowing to things growing in the ground.

When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction.

If you give Congress a chance to vote on both sides of an issue, it will always do it.

I just don't want to play the same guy again over and over.