Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

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.

Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal.

She said, 'It is filled with all the words for how I want you.

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

Don't give a gift with the expectation to get, but if you have a gift, always try to give.

Metaphysics is a science.

A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.

To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

Peace is not everything, but without peace, everything is nothing.