Never! while heaven spares my reason, ’ replied I, snatching away the hand he had presumed to seize and press between his own.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one’s anger.

There is perfect love in Heaven!

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

But where hope rises, fear must lurk behind.

If achieving a desired goal was easy why would anyone bother. There'd be no fun.

I wasn’t sure what was worse: being oblivious or living within reality. (Eric)

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

We should thank God that He did not give us the power of hearing through walls; otherwise there would be no such thing as friendship.

You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.

To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides.

Happy birthday! Hope your 50s will be as awesome as your 40s.

Pain isn't always the enemy.

I kind of fell into acting, but I have sung and trained since I was in the eighth grade.