The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

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.

[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.

How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.

If the leadership can't win a debate, then we should show true leadership and implement the democratic will of our party.

There are so many great things about this business. Almost everybody is on the same team. It is all for one-friendly competitiveness. No one is out to hurt anyone.

Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight.

I am a good man and I behave well on an everyday basis. It was not a decision of waking up one day and saying "I will be a good person today, problem solved", no, it has to be an everyday thing.

Anxious care is out of place in a heavenly Father's presence.

And I feel just like Jesus' son

I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us?

Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.