But because it was able to balance that kind of humor with a sweet story and characters you really rooted for and also got across the girls' point of view I've heard nothing but great things from younger and older females as well.
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good...
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people to...
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
You cannot run away from weakness you must some time fight it out or perish...
If a man loves the labour of his trade apart from any question of success or...
That man is a success who has lived well laughed often and loved much.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought...
Wine is bottled poetry.
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the...
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in...
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
In marriage a man becomes slack and selfish and undergoes a fatty...
Marriage is one long conversation chequered by disputes.
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical...
Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle not a bed of roses.
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us but not impossible...
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit showing ourselves and...
So long as we love we serve so long as we are loved by others I should say...
You can give without loving but you can never love without giving.
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has...
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse...
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the...
I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery....
For my part I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's...
I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great...
Well well Henry James is pretty good though he is of the nineteenth...
There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their...
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards but of playing a poor hand well.
Books are good enough in their own way but they are a poor substitute for...
