You can't trust actors.

I grew up with just my mom. She and I were like best friends. She's a very independent woman and I admire that about her. In my life, I've tried to be like that. To be okay with being on my own and being independent.

I'm scared of scary movies.

I don't really have a type of guy I like. It's just like nice guys, cute boys I mean, ones that are funny.

Well, there's nothing more touching than putting a smile on a kid's face when you can.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.