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

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

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

'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.

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.

Happiness is only for a short time then comes sadness which proceeds on overtime

When you’re in love, you’re capable of learning everything and knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love is the key to understanding of all the the mysteries.

For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.

Whenever the dollar is held supreme and capitalistic interests dominate, a higher value will always be placed upon property rights than upon human rights.

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

Those who run around with women don't walk tightropes. They find it hard enough to crawl on the ground.

I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same.

The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.

To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.

Love is eternal for as long as it lasts.