Dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

My lips twitched into a righteous smile. I felt godlike. Justified. Valko would pay for his crimes here and now, and I wound not weep with regret.

You would rather opt for death than give up. Because, what a way to live a mediocre life by choice?

The silence sat down with them like an invisible creature with its finger to its lips.

Physical reality is one of the biggest horror movies of all, and you know how we love horror movies.

Only solitude means never having to say you’re sorry.

My belief also is that Marilyn Monroe passed away long before she should have left us.

I would agree with [criminal suspects being subjected to a DNA test after arrest]...if that's one step closer to finding out who has (committed a crime), then I think we should do it.

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!

All the States and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedoms.

The weight of sadness was in wonder lost.