Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.

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.

The problem with all politicians is that they are human.

The country's present supply of foreign news depends largely on how best a number of dry goods merchants in New York think they can sell underwear.

When you look at life retrospectively you rarely regret anything that you did, but you might regret things that you didn't do.

We live at a very special time . . . the only time when we can observationally verify that we live at a very special time!

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

This year [2016], however, polls show [Hillary] Clinton winning white college-educated voters by double digits.

War always takes you by surprise.

Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do it even though it takes a lot.

The only person who can fix education is the student.

Absorbing and haunting! BOGEYMAN spills creepily across the page with Steve Jackson's hellacious verve and insight, reminding us there are few better explorers of the American berserk.