The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of.
You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike.
Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship
There is always a but in this imperfect world.
Our children, Edward, Agnes, and little Mary, promise well; their education, for the time being, is chiefly committed to me; and they shall want no good thing that a mother's care can give. Our modest income is amply sufficient for our requirements; and by practising the economy we learnt in harder times, and never attempting to imitate our richer neighbours, we manage not only to enjoy comfort and contentment ourselves, but to have every year something to lay by for our children, and something to give to those who need it. And now I think I have said sufficient.
No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.
We may easily be too big for God to use, but never too small.
Intellectual freedom is essential -- freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices. Such freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorship.
I had no idea I was hot. I was just like, "Oh, this is normal. You make two movies a year. This is easy. " And of course, I have since learned that acting has its periods of unemployment, and ups and downs. The first five years were really good to me.
I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.