To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

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.

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

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 family is not decided by blood but by bonds.

Apparently officers are not ‘men’. Officers are ‘officers’.

Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry she carries them

Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.

Reciprocity helps us balance the need for self-determination and creative individuality with mutual hope, and therefore what might be described as "solidarity".

A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.

I have a lot of pleasures but I don't feel guilty about them.

The past is something for you to learn from and the future is something that you hope is going to happen, but I'm always speaking to my actual fans in present tense.

The most dominant cultural attributes maintained are the ones that are reinforced by your environment.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.