“To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.”

“Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”

“All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.”

“In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.”

“Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics.”

“Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.”

“When you told me, You are my star, my heart danced with joy because that was the best sentence that I have ever heard.”

“Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.”

“Always take a compliment, Caroline. Always take it for the way it was intended. You girls are always so quick to twist what others say. Simply say thank you and move on.”

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect fo...”

“Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.”

“Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.”