What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.

Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.

Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.

Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.

All perfection is melancholy.

I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from.

I could smell the food fill up my hunger before the order was even placed.

Committees kill unconventional ideas for a living.

Our task is to harness the God-given energy of this German nation to stand firm for the Truth.

Every sweet, humble young model is only one campaign away from becoming a fashion monster.

... in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women's experience of violation but just above the level of coercion acceptable to men.

Intimacy with God is to be preferred above material wealth.

I have found words [in the Bible] for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterances for my hidden griefs, and pleadings for my shame and my feebleness.

Players don't really ask for much or want much. But the things that they do need are important.

Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.