“What are men to rocks and mountains?”

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

It’s such a happiness when good people get together.

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

Each found her greatest safety in silence.

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

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.

He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

Success supposes endeavour.

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.

Let me explain my job very simply: My job is to line up five, seven, 10 yards in front of a man and run into him at full speed.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.

Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

In my lifetime, I may have put too much emphasis on winning, because here I am an old man and the only fun I’ve had is winning, and that’s ridiculous.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.