We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured... It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

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.

I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.

We need to gather intelligence, but we need to do so legally.

The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.

The story line of the Bible is the story line of God taking the initiative in seeking out a people who are His very own.

You want your kids to have an opportunity. We're going to fight to give you that.

Words of wisdom for every photographer: 'Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking'. So said Goethe.

Made a sketch later on the cabin verandah, but it was impossible to keep up with the changes. Oh the difficulties of mountain art for too little genius.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.