Miss Fairlie laughed with a ready good-humour, which broke out as brightly as if it had been part of the sunshine above us…

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.

The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.

I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.

The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.

But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?

I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.

We are more sensitive to losses than to gains

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

In a romantic comedy, it's usually a good idea to have people who can't stand the fact that they are attracted to each other.

When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.

Where you stand today does not matter; it is the direction in which your are moving, and the rate at which you travel, that count.

How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done! [Lat., Ut acerbum est, pro benefactis quom mali messem metas!]

I'm a mama's boy above all.

They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it's a good thing.

Listen, were losing so much manufacturing, all over the United States.