“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 may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!

But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

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.

Let us have the luxury of silence.

A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.

I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

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.

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.

Really good things take time to grow. Foundation is not built over night.

Humor is the foundation of reconciliation.

Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.

NATO is built on security, but it’s also built on values.

The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.

All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of all you do.

Botany is based on fixed genera.

Open, honest communication is the best foundation for any relationship, but remember that at the end of the day it’s not what you say or what you do, but how you make people feel that matters the most.