One can never outlive one's vanity.

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!

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

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.

The birth of new knowledge begins with an admission of old ignorance.

He's just a flash in the pants.

Until a seed falls to the ground and dies, it does not become a tree that later yields many fruits and multitude of seeds. We must embrace the thought of death for us to have greater lives.

Rollover minutes don’t work with curfews.

So after the Shadows he acted and directed. And it worked out very nicely. And he wrote, obviously.

Having money gives me the freedom to worry about the things that really matter.

You can just look at a mountain and get a connection with God, you don't have to understand the mountain to feel that.

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

School seemed unimportant, since I learned so much more on my own.

Brains without competitive hearts are rudderless.