Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.

To love and win is the best thing.To love and lose, the next best.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

I never thought I was going to have children. I just thought after 45, that was it.

Love leads us to ourselves - this is the mystery of love.

Despite the failures you've had, you can be great.

Watch out, I have a large, very large fur, with which I could cover you up entirely, and I have a mind to catch you in it as in a net.

Dad's going steady with a pig in the barn.

When you get before great people you don't talk a lot, you ask questions

In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.

Intelligence is a measure of how well you function within your level of awareness.

I was beloved. I had been hoped for. Somehow, I was necessary.

Integrity, probity, ethics and transparency is needed but most important is the culture of discipline