Is it not insupportable to be held down to a canter when you long to gallop for miles?

As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.

It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner.

No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.

When fate is got it in for you, there is no limit to what you may have to put up with.

There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.

Talking to you is like -- like talking to an eel!" "No, is it? I've never tried to talk to an eel. Isn't it as waste of time?" "Not such a waste of time as talking to you!

You may have married her, but she is mine. Do you think I shall let you take her? She may be ten times your wife, but, by God, you shall never have her.

She decided that her wisest course would be to put him out of her mind. After reaching this conclusion she lay thinking about him until at last she fell asleep.

You don't feel you could marry me instead? Got no brains, of course, and I ain't a handsome fellow, like Jack, but I love you. Don't think I could ever love anyone else.

Oh, Randall, don't be such a vile beast!" "I don't think much of that",he said critically. "Amiable snake was much better.

Elend: I kind of lost track of time…Breeze: For two hours?Elend: There were books involved.

Whatever the world dishes up, we take it on--not on our own terms, but on the world's.

You stand the risk of misfortunes, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.

I've always tried to avoid politics because most politicians that I know are quite dirty in terms of human dignity, ethics and morals.

We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.

Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.

The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians to the homes assigned them west of the Mississippi.

It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage.

Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.