The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable.

A slighted woman knows no bounds.

Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

No man is worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.

Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.

Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.

As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.

Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it.

Tho marriage be a lottery in which there are a wondrous many blanks, yet there is one inestimable lot in which the only heaven on earth is written.

Our intellect is not intended to be an end in itself, but only a means to the very mind of God.

I feel that a book is never written by the writer aloneit's written by him and everyone around him be it directly or indirectly

To love is to risk, and to risk is to lose sometimes, to get hurt. But let it not deter you from loving again, from being happy.

I always look in the Sunday paper to see where Everton are in the league - starting, of course, from the bottom up.

To utter pleasant words without practicing them, is like a fine flower without fragrance.

I don't bring any ideology or barriers with me into my music.

I don't believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right.

We need to diversify our economy, and the energy industry would be a great place to begin that diversification.

Knowledge is the key.