A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Handsome is that handsome does.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

Wasn't growing catnip in one's yard the kitty equivalent of giving candy to children?

The sadness began later, in waves as crushing as the contractions had been,

... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

I say no wealth is worth my life.

Your husband or your wife is the only person you can really choose to be your family and to have unconditional love with them.

Giving in to fear alters God's best plan for your life.

A chance to try your technique is in one instant never to be regained, so try it without hesitation.

Were women to "unsex" themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.

Controversy for the sake of controversy is sin. Controversy for the sake of truth is a divine command.

I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.