A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.

My true love hath my heart, and I have his

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it

Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.

...on a subconscious level we're aware that time isn't enduring, that it is not a required condition of our existence, that there comes a point when we will have no need of it.

Would somebody please tell him whose idea it had been to kill the entire state of Colorado?

I'm trying to be somebody on whom the experience is lost by supplanting it with its telling. I definitely do that in medical contexts, even in trivial ones.

Unless you continually work, evolve, and innovate, you'll learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has.

The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.

We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.

This magistrate is not the king. The people are the king.

I lived a really wonderful life with this man and even after our divorce, it was incredible.

The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.

It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.