What an age do we live in, when 'tis a miracle if in ten couples that are married, two of them live so as not to publish to the world that they cannot agree.

But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.

Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness of it?

To marry for love were no reproachful thing if we did not see that of ten thousand couples that do it, hardly one can be brought for an example that it may be done and not repented afterwards.

Surfeits kill more than fasting does.

I do not know that ever I desired anything earnestly in my life but 'twas denied me, and I am many times afraid to wish a thing merely lest my fortune should take that occasion to use me ill.

I find so many things to fear and so few to hope.

All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied, as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm.

If you want to know a person’s true character, observe how he treats those who don’t matter.

I lost my temper, " I finish. "I lost my temper. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to.""Well, no one means to lose their temper, my boy, " the Captain smiles. "If they did, it wouldn't be lost.

I love not man the less, but nature more

I'm really not feeling one way or the other with comedy or drama, I'm just sort of doing projects that I've been finding really fun to be a part of.

I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There's nothing I'd ever buy, but I like being there. It's wacky.

Anything that's for free, people will take. They don't discriminate.

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.

No work begun shall ever pause for death.

Ben McAdoo has a "work hard" mentality.