Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.

The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.

Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.

Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

When things come to the worse they generally mend.

When things come to the worst they generally mend.

Your blessings far outnumber your troubles.

Love is the great conqueror of lust.

I always think of Meryl [Streep] for everything now. There really aren't many actresses around who are truly lucid the way she is.

Why not give Christianity a trial?

The cliche is dead poetry.

This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it.

We don't need to allow any more Nancy Pelosies to wind up in Congress.

I was once more in a time which the things around me were changing and that is how I wanted it to be for the rest of my days.

I love going shopping. I have a black belt in it.

There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.