Nothing like the act of eating for equalizing men. Dying is nothing to it.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

I look at [books] as a child looks at cakes - with glittering eyes and a watering mouth, imagining the pleasure that awaits him.

There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.

Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.

Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.

I dare not hope. I never was fainthearted before; but I cannot believe such a creature cares for me.

But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.

If God is really my Father, I have rights, and He has responsibilities. I hereby claim my birthright to be protected, educated, and provided for!

I am doing what is right and from my heart against all odds.

Everything bad gets shot at in America, says John Cole, and everything good too.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.

You know what's fun? You pick somebody at random, like out of the phone book, and send them about 100 'Just Because' cards. They can't even ask you why you did it.

To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.

For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life.

I don't want to impress somebody, I want to move somebody. Say the most with the least.