Always desire to learn something useful

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

What greater wound is there than a false friend?

Nothing's ever gone. We fool ourselves that things fade, but they never do.

There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.

Quite frankly, the bible is filled with advice that you'd never, want to follow. "Don't cut your hair on a rainy Thursday because locusts will eat your farm" kind of thing.

Frenzied activity is no gauge of spirituality

One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are

Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great.

Being in love is an exhausting business.

Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.

I wrote a great deal of verse. In fact, every time I fell in love, which was rather often, I burst into the emotional sort of thing which is perennially salable.

History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever.