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

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

God did not give me my life to throw it away.

What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

Most people that I know who go to church actually go there to twist the arms of God so that he can get all the discomfort away from them.

Do you know, Alexey Fyodorovitch, how people do go out of their mind?

I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.

I had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years.

Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers.

People who become used to saying little become used to feeling little.

My life off the court has changed. I'm feeling good inside, so I guess it shows on the outside too

My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.

Some people reach the age of sixty before others.

Feel like (I've been) released from prison.