A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

As I prefer to see it, there has never been an epic love story that involved significant amounts of self-control.

Not only is your story your truth, your story is going to be the platform and the foundation for everything that's getting ready to happen in your life.

The world has no idea how much it owes to the presence of righteous men in it.

I think President Obama really does get the value of the arts.

When I was at the age when you were supposed to be glamorous if you were a movie star, I wasn't.

I think heroism is when somebody really goes above and beyond the call of duty and does something outstanding for either themselves or somebody else.

I personally feel I still have so much to learn as a writer; each novel is better than the one before, just because I'm getting better at it.

You have to let the world speak to you and then you speak, you know, so I'm in that moment now where I'm finding the world's voice.

We showed that when we say 'Wisconsin is open for business', we mean it.

The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character.