Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.

It's the most pleasurable experience in the world! When you're on a great team and you get hot, your teammates milk you dry - they wear you out and there's nothing like being on a great team.

At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.

I like to connect with people through my work. That's my favorite way - meetings of the minds, fans at a show. Those are nice mediated ways of hanging out.

I think there's a future where the Web and print coexist and they each do things uniquely and complement each other, and we have what could be the ultimate and best-yet array of journalistic venues.

Because feeling love does make you feel superior. Until you find out you aren't loved back.

I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it's a little unseemly for women of a certain age.

Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.