A slighted woman knows no bounds.

Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

No man is worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.

Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.

Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.

As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.

Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it.

Tho marriage be a lottery in which there are a wondrous many blanks, yet there is one inestimable lot in which the only heaven on earth is written.

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals

Maybe not. But maybe that's how the world changes, Isaiah. One father, one child, at a time.

We worry about many things. And pray about few things.

If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you are now.

I was so grateful that Lemony Snicket wasn't the worst movie ever made that I overlooked many things that might have otherwise upset me.

Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

This is a people shooting hat," I said. "I shoot people in this hat.

What we say we believe makes very little difference until we act on our belief

I believe that children have to grow up as all-round personalities, but it cannot be at the cost of academics.

Don't fear the light within. May it ignite the Sacred Flame in your soul.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.