“Enough of that, you damned conspirators, you will have us hanged a great deal sooner than we will.”

“I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.”

“Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!”

“And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it.”

“Next you will cry about taxation without representation, and throw a basket of tea into the harbor. You are indeed a very Jacobin at heart, and I think I must give up trying to cure you of it; I ca...”

“And yet Praecursoris is not punished the same way, only because it is not practical, and he is needed for breeding?”

“Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is thread, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.”

“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.”

“The strongest bonds are of the heart.”

“One day, I decided to help wherever I could & it was almost like magic, because I was exactly what the world needed everywhere I went.”

“There is no more compelling motivation to worthwhile endeavor than the knowledge that we are children of God, that God expects us to do something with our lives, and that He will give us help when ...”

“Only a person who is motivated in the inner depths of his being will help without hesitation and with no obligation for the one helped.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”