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

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.

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.

You are human and fallible.

One day the people that didn't believe in you, will tell everyone how they met you.

As you grow wiser, so does your personality.

That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.

I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.

Celebrating Christmas without Christ is like celebrating George Washington's birthday without mentioning the first president.

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

Arrogance frowns; pride smiles.

The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters.

I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.