No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Solitude begets whimsies.

But the fruit that can fall without shaking indeed is too mellow for me.

Love does not need true copies signed by a registrar of marriages.

When I thought of Eric with someone else, I wanted to rip out all his beautiful blonde hair. By the roots. In clumps.

I find that it's best to take one step at a time and cross each bridge as they come to you.

The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done?

Love is a choice you make everyday.

Remember that you must always have a deep regard for courtesy, and you must be respectful and obedient toward your seniors.

Life doesn't have to be hard, life is on your side.

My garden is a forest ledge Which older forest s bound; The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge, Then plunge to depths profound!

A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.