To marry for love were no reproachful thing if we did not see that of ten thousand couples that do it, hardly one can be brought for an example that it may be done and not repented afterwards.

But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.

Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness of it?

Surfeits kill more than fasting does.

I do not know that ever I desired anything earnestly in my life but 'twas denied me, and I am many times afraid to wish a thing merely lest my fortune should take that occasion to use me ill.

What an age do we live in, when 'tis a miracle if in ten couples that are married, two of them live so as not to publish to the world that they cannot agree.

I find so many things to fear and so few to hope.

All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied, as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm.

Stairway to Hell or Yellow Brick Road? Why don't you give your Magic 8 Ball a shake and see if it's ready to play again.

In general, I feel if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Obviously you have a responsibility - one would like to think there is such a thing as ethics in filmmaking.

Be heroes in an army of construction.

I'm not married and I don't have kids, and so I like to go to work.

In all God's providences, it is good to compare His word and His works together; for we shall find a beautiful harmony between them, and that they mutually illustrate each other.

Despite what people might think, I'm not interested in being dark all the time. I'm actually searching for some kind of light, and I'm always very happy when I can achieve that.

Leave off that excessive desire of knowing; therein is found much distraction. There are many things the knowledge of which is of little or no profit to the soul.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.