It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Solitude begets whimsies.

Tears do not replace sweat, at least it never did in me... When I just cry, I'm in the same situation.

If you remain dependent on your parents all your life, do not carry a wrong pretence that you are even born.

What matters more than where you are is the direction you are heading.

I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.

If it’s a revolution it can’t be predictable. And if it’s predictable it can’t be a revolution.

Gentleman, God created you with the heart of a warrior. Until there’s something you’re willing to die for, you can’t truly live.

What is the thing that Will could do to make me not love him? That would make me abandon him? I can’t think of one. I'm sorry. Except if he did something bad to the kids - now we've got a problem.

I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.

Each human being has his own sexual profile, and should exercise it without guilt - provided he does not oblige others to exercise it with him.

Pick any other Republican in the country. He is the worst Republican in the country to put up against Barack Obama.