Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?"Reader, I forgave him at the moment and on the spot.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Conventionality is not morality.

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.

And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

Never judge a book by its price"This is the price an author pays to be known. :)

People say love is the international language. I'd say jealousy and anger are also pretty articulate.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.

You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.

I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don't think I'm funny.

When I hear a person talking about political solutions, I know I am not listening to a serious person.

I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles.

The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.

The madder I get, the faster I go.