We are so fond of hearing ourselves spoken of, that, be it good or ill, it is still pleasing.

Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things

The heart has no wrinkles.

We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.

I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.

I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post.

... we ought to be astonished at nothing; for what do we not meet with in our journey through life?

When you forgive, you love.

What men call friendship is no more than a partnership a mutual care of interests an exchange of favors - in a word it is a sort of traffic in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.

No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived.

After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked.

When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your own heart.

People don't actually think there is such a thing out there as angel research.

Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No fear lest he should swerve or faint; "His life is Christ, his death is gain.

I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.

Quality combines people power and process power.

The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.