People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.

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.

Wenn man noch nicht das Leben kennt, wie sollte man den Tod kennen.

The truth for every superhero is that beneath the greatest pain lies the greatest power.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

If one took a role with the intention of, "I'll show them what I can do!," then it's not going to be good because the ego is going to just block everything.

If you look at polls, Hillary Clinton is considered the toughest in a field of men. That's no small victory for her going towards a general election.

Not lost, but gone before.

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

I like the job I have, but if I had to live my life over again, I would like to have ended up a sports writer.

The ruins of time build mansions in eternity.