This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

Oliver Goldsmith

Bride. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Ambrose Bierce

Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.

Christina Aguilera

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.

Lord Chesterfield

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

George Eliot

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Leo Tolstoy

She was so fat that when she got on the scale a card came out saying one at a time.

Rodney Dangerfield

We Hoosiers are excessively optimistic about summer.

John Green

I hope there have been times when I made you all proud, or made you all smile or at least piqued your interest in this wonderful institution we call government.

John Rowland

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

Joseph Joubert

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Hippocrates

When will the state of the country be sound?... When its people believe that the end result of cowardice is more disastrous than that of behaving with integrity.

Naguib Mahfouz, Echoes of an Aut