"Actresses will happen in the best regulated families."

"All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or peculiar."

"How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers."

"Feelings are real and legitimate; children behave and misbehave for a reason, even if adults cannot figure it out."

"Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again."

"Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving."

"The truth is so precious that she must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies."

"The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman."

"The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it."

"Ita€?s a wonder man can eat at all, when things are big that should be small."

"Early morning hath gold in its mouth."

"The elaborate caution with which the British commander now proceeded stands out in striking contrast with the temerity of his advance upon Bunker Hill in the preceding year."