I want a house that has gotten over all its troubles I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.

Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.

They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.

Countries which are governed by the dabblers will undoubtedly turn into the miserable countries!

Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

For Beatrice- When we were together I felt breathless. Now you are.

Love, after all, was universal. Qhuinn closed his fist up tight, and knew he would never, ever take that ring off. “Always,” Blay murmured. “Because family is an always kind of thing.

Money is that thing that you work so hard to save but gets spent so easily.

I don't do my own stunts, but I do my own fighting. I don't consider fighting to be a stunt.

Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.

The slogan of the revolution was dignity, social justice, and freedom. You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.

Allow me, whom Fortune always desires to bury, lay down my life in these final trivialities. Many have freely died in longlasting loves, among whose number may the earth cover me as well.