Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

Never fear to be wonderful.

A president must know what it is he does not know, and he should remain calm in pursuit of it, but there is no obligation to be honest about it.

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.

That's what Hubble can do for us. It can tell us whether the universe is expanding forever or if one day it's going to come back together.

You can't keep an exciting fashion down.

If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner to pray!

There's no emotion more revolutionary than empathy.

Sometimes people stay in the same cycle their entire life, but you can still mature within it.

We believed the fairy tales we told our children and we loved them beyond reason even when we were green and bungling about it. We were children loving our children. And that's who we are still.

The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.