“It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.”

Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can’t be without.

Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

I was quiet but I was not blind.

Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

To love is to burn, to be on fire.

Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.

I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn’t seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.

I realized, the older I get, the more difficult life becomes. It’s not easier, it’s more difficult.

In the futile attempts we all make to tidy up our lives and our surroundings, nothing is more difficult than throwing out a book.

The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.

It’s really, really, really difficult to have the same occupation as the person you’re with – especially when you’re both actors.

Art is difficult, transient is her reward.

~My instinct is to protect my children from pain. But adversity is often the thing that gives us character and backbone. It’s always been a struggle for me to back off and let my children go through difficult experiences.~