You deepen the injury. It is sufficient already.

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

the sight of me is good for sore eyes

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them

We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!

...I hope that simple love and truth will be strong in the end. I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

To have all those noble Romans alive before me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead of being the stern taskmasters they had been at school, was a most novel and delightful effect.

The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.

Success requires preparation and persistence effort.

Writing is what happens when the words in your head are overpowered by the words in your heart."J.L. Bond

Have you not succeeded? Continue! Have you succeeded? Continue!

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases

There is no such thing as a moral dress. It's people who are moral or immoral.

There's one thing that life does where ever it goes- it begats life.

Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.

Love doesn't hurt you. A person that doesn't know how to love hurts you. Don't get it twisted.