Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

Everyone has the fire, but the champions know when to ignite the spark.

I can't be a cream puff.

What men usually ask of God when they pray is that two and two not make four.

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

Being arrested that also changed everything for me because I was suddenly seeing America from a different perspective all together. I did a couple of weeks in a county jail.

Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.

Technology makes everyone feel old. A laptop is old after two years. Someone always has something newer. Everyone seems to feel obsolete now, even the young.

Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.

Taylor: what do you hear? Daisy: Nothing but rain

Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes.