Those Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love.

Nothing can be more true, than that the greatest Boasters have the least of what they pretend to.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

Possession naturally abates the Vigour of Desire.

The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition.

There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much the more we draw nearer to the Great Author of Nature.

The jealous have but moments of Delight for years of Pain.

Those who are unjust in one Thing, will be so in others.

Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them.

In fine, that it is not enough to be good, without behaving in such a manner as shall make others acknowledge us to be so.

The present is precious gift.The past cannot be replayed.The future is no guarantee.Live in the present.

This was a great year for preventive worrying. Seldom in recent history have so many people worried about so many things that didn't happen in the end.

I was a very sad little girl.

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it.

We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people.

Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups.

I just was non-political and didn't see myself as a person who could push people around, make their decision, you know, and tell them how lousy their work was.