None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

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

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.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

Comfort without action is only discomfort and dissatisfaction in latent action. It always seems we shall have a good tomorrow until a bad tomorrow comes

Sometimes language can't even read the music of meaning.

I want to know in this day and age, whether it is possible for any candidate who is not a billionaire or who is not beholden to the billionaire class, to be able to run successful campaigns.

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on.

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.

The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.

For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.

I think I'm passionately allowing myself to be influenced by the things that are around me.

Legalism is looking to something besides Jesus Christ in order to be acceptable and clean before God.