"Our critics are our friends; they show us our faults."

"I feel how little she can like being told of her owing me anything. No woman ever enjoys such an obligation to another woman."

"It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed."

"Wear a smile and have friends, wear a scowl and have wrinkles."

"Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best."

"Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth."

"Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them."

"You can judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing to them or for them."

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all."

"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right."

"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."

"Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit."

"The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all."

"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe."

"Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire."

"No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide."

"To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears."

"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."