Know your own happiness.

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.

We become the people who are made by our family and society when we are ignorant of who we are

Oh, God, ” Magnus said. “They’re dead. They’re all dead.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love the more they give the more they possess.

Workers of the world unite, it's not just a slogan anymore.

Some things get better with age, but after a certain point, the mind isn't among them.

How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not suffering in life, or at all events, of suffering less.

We must remind ourselves that an assault on any one of our liberties and freedoms is an assault on all.

For a while I didn't believe in marriage. But I think I do believe in having a love. I'm not saying only one love ever, but in having a good, solid relationship. I think that's possible.

A woman either loves or hates; she knows no medium.

It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself.