Lady Middleton ... exerted herself to ask Mr. Palmer if there was any news in the paper. 'No, none at all,' he replied, and read on.

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.

When everyone is poor you don't know you're poor. My father worked so some of the boys thought I was actually rich.

I don't run to add days to my life, I run to add life to my days.

The way we live is changing. Each year, our free time shrinks a little more as computers clamor for an increasing percentage of our attention.

Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I've ever seen in my time in Congress or before.

Don't give up on the child. Give the child an education. Give them daily love.

A mother can exert an influence unequaled by any other person in any other relationship.

Once I fix what kids watch, I'll be moving on to everything else.

[T]he burden of government is not measured by how much it taxes, but by how much it spends.

Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.

I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.