"It is most unwise for people in love to marry."

“A friend of mine always says, ‘Women love me for the man I’m not.’”

“September did not want to feel for the Marquess. That’s how villains get you, she knew. You feel badly for them, and next thing you know, you’re tied to train tracks. But her wild, untried heart opened up another bloom inside her, a dark branch heavy with fruit.”

“Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.”

“Reading musses up my mind.”

“There was one thing Bridget like about guys. They took insults well.”

“My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.”

“What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world”

“Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.”

Source : Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax (1828). “The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Butler: To which is Prefixed, an Account of the Character and Writings of the Author”