Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.

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

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

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.

Personal perception of perfection is like that. You see what you want to see. After awhile you just see what you need to.

Even though he said no store in uncanny things, he was soldier enough to value with whatever weapon came to hand.

The second her lips met mine a million dreams began to flicker before my still-open eyes.

Online life is so delicious because it is socializing with almost no friction.

Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.

A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the princess doesn’t.

Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.

Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable.

Do not try to drive pain away by pretending it is not real. If you seek serenity in oneness, pain will vanish of its own accord.

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble