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.

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.

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals

There are always few friends... we love to make them feel jealous..

Your distinction shouldn't be measured by your duration but rather, your donation.

He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody.

Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.

Together, we can make a U.S. Department of Peace into a reality, and leave a gift of peace for generations to come.

But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

A weed is a plant that is not only in the wrong place, but intends to stay.

Pain is inevitable, it eventually touches us all. Suffering is optional.

The speed of time is one second per second.

Don't put yourself in a time-out.