The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Keep your promises and be consistent. Be the kind of person others can trust.

Reading Encyclopaedia Britannica is like channel surfing on a very highbrow cable system.

He wouldn't hear of anybody's paying taxes, though he was very patriotic.

You need one person who knows you... Just one person you can't fool, even when you fool yourself.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.

What science-fiction premises do is it gives you a "what-if" prism to look at the contemporary world with a wack on the side of the head.

Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

Convulsions in nature, disorders, prodigies, miracles, though the most opposite of the plan of a wise superintendent, impress mankind with the strongest sentiments of religion.

In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.