Upon my word, you five your opinion very decidedly for so young a person.

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

What are men to rocks and mountains?

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

Obstinate, headstrong girl!

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.

The feverish excitement of twenty had been something very noble, very beautiful, but it had not been love.

Time waits for no man, but progress waits for man to inact it.

Like most good looking women, she was never sure of her beauty, and had to keep checking on it, to make sure it was still there.

In music I feel most deeply the passing of things.

Saving us is the greatest and most concrete demonstration of God's love, the definitive display of His grace throughout time and eternity.

When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right.

You've seen my descent, now watch my rising.

Far as I can tell, I still have most of my hair, my gut is not hanging over my belt, and I still have all of my teeth.

The Boy with Nails in His Eyes put up his aluminum tree. It looked pretty strange because he couldn't really see.