Ambition is no cure for love!

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

A true friend accepts you as you are.

You know, surprisingly, they don't sell a lot of brains in the local 24-hour grocery store around the corner from my house.

Who bides his time tastes the sweet Of honey in the saltiest tear; And though he fares with slowest feet Joy runs to meet him drawing near.

People recognise me when I'm holiday on the beach.

Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.

When you pass through the fire, you pass through humble.

If you don't know why you like a thing, it is usually worth your while to attempt to find out.

Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought.

And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a lawyer.

I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard.