Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

It is not in our stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

The Eyes are the window to your soul

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

Caleb and Aaron—now you are people and you have joined the fraternity and you have the right to be damned.

But a man's beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

I was born in India - but never really lived there.

The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.

The worst of all hobbies are those that people think they can get money at. They shoot their money down like corn out of a sack then.

As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates.

It's quintessentially American to transform your family.

There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.

Oh, well, I'd like to have commercial success. I guess.