You would say you don't see it: at least I flatter myself I read as much in your eye (beware, by-the-by, what you express with that organ, I am quick at interpreting its language).

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Conventionality is not morality.

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.

And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

Yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits.

Reading illuminates our path with the brightest light.

I can survive either love or insanity. But not both. And you bring me both.

What is a friend? I will tell you...it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.” ― Frank Crane

As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.

I take the horsemanship very seriously and I treat it with the same integrity that one would any of the fine arts.

It’s the order of things: each one gets a taste of honey then the knife.

There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.

A girl could be sitting on her computer, trying to get noticed by me, and not knowing she's the future Mrs. Justin Bieber.

These troops know how to shoot and kill and I expect they will.