Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.