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.

Let us express our deepest gratitude for every moment that we spend in loving, laughing, and living out time that we call life.

...a man's blood soon runs cold where there is no one around to warm it up.

These were the new girls of New York- complete with rapid heartbeats from too much nicotine and coffee. They were nervous and fluttery but completely alluring- the new face of urban femininity.

Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else. When things belong to others, we enjoy them twice as much, without the risk of losing them, and with the pleasure of novelty.

I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.'

The art of writing, like the art of love, runs all the way from a kind of routine hard to distinguish from piling bricks to a kind of frenzy closely related to delirium tremens.

Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options.

I’ve always been quiet, more of an observer.

I have always had this necessity to win. When I played with my friends on the street, football or running, I always wanted to be the best.

Don't think that I'm silly for liking it, I just happen to like the simple little things, and I love cats!