There is nothing serious in mortality! Solomon in all his glory was Solomon with the elements of the contemptible lurking in every fold of his robes and in every corner of his palace.

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.

The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.

I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.

The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.

But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?

I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.

Carrie is my child, and I love her with every ounce of strength I possess.

Apart from an innate grasp of tactical concepts, a great coach must possess the essentials attributes of leadership which mold men into a cohesive, fighting team with an invincible will to victory.

The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.

I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut. I have a baby and then you send him off to war. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.

Thou shalt not transgress the carrying capacity

I was brought into situations God couldn't get out of, and I got out of them.

The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.

If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.

If the first of July it be rainy weather, 'Twill rain more or less for four weeks together.

I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.