If you want things to change, you must change. If you want things to get better, you must get better.

By the power of three times three!” exclaimed Gillian. “You could qualify as your own continent, man!

A covetous man's penny is a stone.

A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.

I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.

The masters eye fattens the horse, and his foote the ground.

Silent people are dangerous; others are not so. [Fr., Les gens sans bruit sont dangereux; Il n'en est pas ainsi des autres.]

Listen, I would say, this is not how I thought our lives would go; and may be we cannot find our way out of this alley. But there is no one I'd rather be lost with.

I would live in a world of Christ-like humans, but not one full of Christians, may God forgive me.

We are in bondage to that which overcomes us. See also 2 Peter 2:19.

Money is a powerful aphrodisiac but flowers work almost as well.