There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

The way through the worldIs more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

Great. There goes our security deposit."~ Sean

And if she had appeared, would I have dared to speak to her?

But the places we come from don't leave us as easily as we leave them.

Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.

Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

The problem is that what Donald Trump said, if you take it literally now, is cause for anxiety and nervousness.

I'm American. I'm eclectic. I'm going to follow my musical passions. And if people don't like it, and it hurts my legacy, I'm not going to worry about that.

My life was not useless; I gave important truths to the world, and it was only for want of understanding that they were disregarded. I have been ahead of my time.

Those who put blinders on their eyes should remember that the set also includes bridle and a whip.