A good man's prayers will from the deepest dungeon climb heaven's height, and bring a blessing down.

Good-morrow to thy sable beak, And glossy plumage, dark and sleek, Thy crimson moon and azure eye

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

If my heart were not light, I would die.

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!

The bliss even of a moment still is bliss.

My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate.

But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.

A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.

If winter helps you curl up and more that makes it one of the best of the seasons.

It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.

If you worship power, you will feel weak and afraid, needing ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay.

John Kerry, windsurfing dilettante

One of the regime's most important tactics is the creation of a third force in the country.

Never ask a hungry cat whether he loves you for yourself alone.

You speak your mind, don't you...? A rare find in a woman.

When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and reward.

As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth.