Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away.

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

Extreme justice is often injustice.

Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.

Sun, I come to see you for the last time.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

How good is God! How sweet his yoke!

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.

No, thanks, " said Harry. "The toilet's never had anything as horrible as your head down it— it might be sick." Then he ran, before Dudley could work out what he'd said.

In many ways, the title American is an oxymoron because one may look it on the outside but not feel it on the inside.

There will be positive and negative references with everything we do in life. At best we can simply hope that overtime, the positive outweighs the negative.

When the rain finally abates, I decide to wait out the night instead of trying to climb in the dark.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.

...It's important to distinguish between "worry versus harm" when it came to privacy online.

That's a very, very touchy subject, domestic violence. I think women don't realize is it's something that's very prevalent. It goes on, on a daily basis.

Time spent in nature decreases stress and anxiety and improves focus for adults as well as children.

It's not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I've done much longer trips on my own. It's leaving home.