Too many cooks spoil the broth

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.

He feared at certain moments that the only new knowledge he would take away from this country was learning how to swim and use the telephone.

On a medical school professor noted for slowly, carefully interviewing the patient: "He taught the love of truth.

Great things are not something accidental but must certainly be willed.

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.

Think, in mounting higher, the angels would press on us, and aspire to drop some golden orb of perfect song into our deep, dear silence.

I probably spend more time with my kids than the average stay-at-home mother.

The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.

Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.

I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so clearly is!

This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.