...I hope that simple love and truth will be strong in the end. I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

the sight of me is good for sore eyes

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them

We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!

To have all those noble Romans alive before me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead of being the stern taskmasters they had been at school, was a most novel and delightful effect.

His was not a lazy trustfulness that hoped, and did no more.

Thoughts are more alive than you are. Without thoughts, are you there?

If you see someone in trouble, you should help them. Experiment or not.

Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas of controversy. That's inescapable.

Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.

When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.

I know what I liked as a child, and I don’t do any book that I, as a child, wouldn’t have liked.

A man who can be provoked by a tweet should not have his fingers anywhere near the nuclear codes.

I use social media not to ask new people to like my stuff. I use social media to connect with that one reader who likes my stuff.

Let me say here and now that faith has never done me any good, only doubt. So that is what has become my testament.

As an audience member and as an actor I much prefer to find ambiguity.