Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it.

A slighted woman knows no bounds.

Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

No man is worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.

Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.

Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.

As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.

Tho marriage be a lottery in which there are a wondrous many blanks, yet there is one inestimable lot in which the only heaven on earth is written.

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals

Life is nothing but a clump of mud

The goal was never dependent on the route that took me there. It was always dependent on the heart that got me through whatever route opened itself up to my efforts.

That's what everyone forgets these days: there's a fine line between sanity and insanity. Lots of people are on the edge. We can't be in perfect balance all the time.

In essence the renaissance is simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

When you act like a teacher, it's usually because you're afraid to be the student.

Jerry Goldsmith is an artist who meets all the demands upon the composer in films. He communicates, integrates, subordinates, supports, and designs with discipline.

Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song.

Hippo in a skirt: this was a comic reference to one of Solomon's principal wives, the one from Moab. Childish? Yes. But in the days before printing we had limited opportunities for satire.

Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language.

If you're not scared a lot you're not doing very much.