Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.

A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.

She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.

In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.

In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends...

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.

[Technology] has taught us how to become gods before we have learned to be men.

Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, So I make an idle boast; Jesus of the twice-turned cheek Lamb of God, although I speak With my mouth thus, in my heart Do I play a double part.

I've certainly seen stats that if you have a woman director or a woman screenwriter, the number of female characters goes way up.

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

Democrats have chosen not to defend the Marine Corps, but to pander to anti-war protesters and Berkeley officials that are actively trying to impede military recruitment.

The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own.

When you listen, you learn, You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.

If I see MS Dhoni coming to bat at number 4, I will be the happiest person on earth