Our private property must be sacrificed.

It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.

I would rather fight with my hands than my tongue.

you may imagine me the very shadow of my husband.

And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take.

Two messengers covered with dust come to bid me fly, but I wait for him.

It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping.

At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to the house.

Disaffection stalks around us.

When I shall again write to you, or where I shall be tomorrow, I cannot tell.

A peaceful mind is the source of all joy and all happiness.

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.

Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.

I think I’m dying to get to know a particular guy. Then he opens his mouth and ruins it.

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.

I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise.

I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.

The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins.

Wisdom is knowing when you don't know

I feel like the spirit of the butterfly transferred itself to me.