Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

What are men to rocks and mountains?

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

Obstinate, headstrong girl!

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.

Evidently one endures anything, provided one has a goal.

We recognised that the youth demographic needed to be pursued, preferably with dogs.

I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it."

In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious

It's easy to love humanity when you're this far away from it.

Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.

My first job was a Greek tragedy, and ever since, one job just seemed to roll onto the next. I've been terribly lucky.

We have a great dream. It started way back in 1776, and God grant that America will be true to her dream.

How we long to remove the clutter from our lives not realizing that the clutter is our lives.