Their virtues lived in their children. The family changed its persons but not its manners, and they continued a blessing to the world from generation to generation.

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.

Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.

[Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently is fitted only to the most exalted geniuses.

Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.

I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.

On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous castle.

I am none of those nonsensical fools that can whine and make romantic love--I leave that to younger brothers. Let my estate speakfor me.

But in all things whether we shall make only a due use of the liberties we have asked, is left entirely to the judicious reader to decide.

Even the sick should try these so-called dangerous passes, because for every unfortunate they kill, they cure a thousand.

Realise there is always somebody else in the World who's not coping as well as you are.

Homework, root canals, and deadlines are the important things in life, and only when we have these major dramas taken care of can we presume to look at the larger questions.

A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.

I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.

Structure is, for me, the most fun challenge about writing novels.

An important function of the Supreme Court is to provide guidance, .. As a lower court judge, I appreciate clear guidance from the Supreme Court.

I'm not better than anyone, and I'm not trying to convince people to live by my standards of what's right. I'm trying to convince them to live by their own.

Besides the physical strains I realized men can be pigs to women even when it's a man dressed as one.

Sometimes we need to lose our way.... to find our way