Pity is akin to love.

Pity's akin to love; and every thought Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul.

When guilt is in its blush of infancy, it trembles in a tenderness of shame; and the first eye that pierces through the veil that hides the secret brings it to the face

Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die.

There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause.

The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together.

Lying's a certain mark of cowardice.

An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes.

Words may be counterfeit, false coined, and current only from the tongue, without the mind; but passion is in the soul, and always speaks the heart.

God knows you very well

Smoke rose straight up from the chimney, as if the house raised its hand. As if the house knew the answer.

As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allotted for vacation.

Im thinking of going into rehab. Im not addicted to anything, but I think its good way to jumpstart an acting career.

Not only is there no question of solitude, but in the long run we may not choose our company.

THE INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM requires that prices be under effective control. And it seeks the greatest possible influence over what buyers take at the established prices.

Much more than a 20th-century village storyteller, Cees Nooteboom stands as an impressive and inimitable voice among contemporary writers.

I always did hate for anyone to know what my plans or hopes or prospects were—for, if I kept people in ignorance in these matters, no one could be disappointed but myself, if they were not realized.

When students cheat on exams, it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.

Moist was sure doctors keep skeletons around to cow patients. Nyer, nyer, we know what you look underneath.