flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

God did not give me my life to throw it away.

What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

A boss says “go and make sure you do it”

Just been poisoned by my gran. Nothing says Christmas better than familicide and anaphylactic shock.

Food safety involves everybody in the food chain.

I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.

I do tend to be almost kind of Pollyanna-ish person.

I'll always be with you, inside and out," she reads. "Through hard times and helpless ones, through love, through doubt.

Eighty percent of the things I do are not natural for my personality. I believe you have to fake it till you make it. Act like you're confident and you'll get there.

Genesis 50:20 applies to every area of life.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that.