Rome ... seems to me the place in the world where one can best dispense with happiness.

I want to do everything in the world that can be done.

[On disagreeing with her husband about his slave-holding:] I cannot give my conscience into the keeping of another human being or submit the actions dictated by my conscience to their will.

What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I charm the interval that lowers Between this time and that sweet time of grace?

When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence.

... it's always determined characters who make the greatest fools.

An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of nothing. The finest actor does not create, he is but a translator of another man's work.

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.

Carols of gladness ring from every tree.

They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it.

Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.

Love at first sight is easy to understand it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'

If we were in India now, there would be servants standing in the corners of this room and I wouldn't notice them. That is what my society is like, that is what the divide is like.

The average taxpayer in Germany or Japan pays less for the defense of his country than the average taxpayer in America pays for the defense of Germany or Japan.

Even if people tell me they have historical proof [that it is not historical], that doesn't really bother me.

Some of His children must go into the furnace to testify that the Son of God is there with them.

We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are.

A cat likes to hear you calling him. He sits in a bush a yard from your shoes - and listens.

The sweetness of love is short-lived, but the pain endures.