More people laugh at us than with us, however it may appear at the moment.

If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.

The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.

Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue.

A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it.

Husband and wife,--so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!

Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.

Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.

Offended self-love never forgives.

Curses are like processions. They return to the place from which they came.

Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past.

It is that we are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love.

Be careful your footsteps do not stumble by the stumbling stone.

The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.

If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.

You do brutal workouts to get used to suffering so suffering doesn't become a defining deal.

I'm a character actor; that's my skill set.

I love her (Lucifer), with all my heart. She said that she would give me greatness, status, placement above the others.

I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way.

I remember when a Coke came in a six-ounce bottle, and delicious it was. Now it comes in sizes so big that I question how the human bladder can deal with the intake.

If you are to be an effective nation builder, make it your business, to understand what is really happening in the economy, both nationally and globally.