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.

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

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!

...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.

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.

If you waste a minute, you have wasted life and if you waste an hour, you have wasted life.

What part of Canada are you from, honey?""THE LEFT PART, " said Jay.

world is small to hate but very big to love

I value my privacy, and if sometimes my actions seem strange or arbitrary or capricious, I do not want them challenged.

It's the steady constant driving to the goal for which you're striving not the speed with which you travel that will make your victory sure.

Style isn’t just about what you wear, it’s about how you live.

Newtonian physics is over. You don't act on the world to change the world. You realize the world is a projection of your inner self. If you change, the world changes.

I'm a strong believer in stating your position and not wavering.

The strength of weak people constantly appalls me. Have you ever seen a vine kill an oak tree? Deadly.

The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith.