To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.

I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change. I cannot bear it longer! Now, I know what it is to have a visit from one's old thoughts, with what they may bring with them! I have had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasant thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the drawers.

But shouldn't all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power?

I know what you want. It is very stupid of you, but you shall have your way, and it will bring you to sorrow, my pretty princess. - The sea witch.

Eighty percent of our criminals come from unsympathetic homes.

Time is so fleeting that if we do not remember God in our youth, age may find us incapable of thinking of him.

In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land; in the Middle Ages he would have been burned at the stake.