A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

The barbarians never take a city until someone holds the gates open to them. And it's your own multicultural authorities who will do it for you

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.

The Jews in the ghetto were every bit as imperfect as human beings anywhere else.

What's the good of not believing? Today it's your wife you don't believe; tomorrow it's God Himself you won't take stock in.

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If you come from money and you become an addict, you go to the Betty Ford Clinic, you get treatment. If you're living on the street and you're an addict, it's much harder to find your way out.

I like being a woman, not a girl.

There are some who died because they were fasting, and they were crammed in tight.