She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.

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.

All objects exist in a moment of time.

I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.

Oooooh, don’t make her mad!” the leader gasps around his laughter.

It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.

All men even, I have written, Jesus Christ began as flecks of tissue inside a woman's womb. Every boy must stagger out of the shadow of a mother goddess, whom he never fully escapes.

No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.

As my contribution as an artist and a storyteller, I have to have some hope. I have to have some beacon of good at the end of it.

Here is what we have to offer you in its most elaborate form -- confusion guided by a clear sense of purpose.

One's knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.

God keeps the entire Universe in order, and still finds time to take a personal interest in you and me.