Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.

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.

Dance was her style, dance was her fashion.

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

I have been a long-term environmental advocate for the agriculture industry. I have particularly tried to push carbon farming or carbon sequestration.

Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.

The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.

The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.

A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size, or it is not the door that providence means for him.

But now, as throughout history, financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated.

Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel; we don't even know where the tunnel is.

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.