Titles of honour are like the impressions on coin; — which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

It cannot be done all at once. To overpower vertigo - the keeper of the abyss- one must tame it, cautiously.

When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.

Metrosexuality is dead. And good riddance to it.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.

We've had parallel lives. And frankly, I prefer mine to his. I would not like to be George Bush.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Who you become is determined by how you pray

I haven't heard anything about a reunion show for Sisters. But if the script was good I would do it.

When we realize that we are both wretched and beautiful, we are freed up to see others the same way.

The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.