Love, like virtue, is its own reward.

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.

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

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.

Life isn't fair. A fair's a place where you eat corn dogs and ride the ferris wheel.

I have seen enough. I am ready to see the world die.

I think that if you just write your characters you end up with something that people can access.

The camera's perspective exactly matches that of the assassin: it now shoots the tourists shooting their own memorial photos, and we can watch this in real time.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings for itself, as an instrument for the accomplishment of its own ends.

a fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

Take a sip from the cup of death... And when you're shaking my right hand, I'll stab you with the left.

Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.

If you're driving more than 50 mph through a neighborhood where the speed limit is 25 mph, I question whether you should keep your driver's license. You're a menace to society.