"The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it."

"To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!"

"People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues."

"Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me."

"To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings."

"My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels."

"Wisdom principle 9 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 62."

"The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent."