Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

Anyway, God is not susceptible to proofs and disproofs. If you believe, the evidence is all around you. If you don’t believe, no evidence can be enough.

He hath always but slightly, known himself...King Lear

You can't join a team and give up on it because you lose a few games or things aren't going well.

Men must sweat to attain virtue.

Our obligation to the will of God is our obligation to the laws of practical reason.

We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.

Bound in primal longings, we pine to be understood by ourselves.

You can tell other people all the alibis you want. I don't mind. But to yourself try to be honest.

A man carries out suggestions the more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.