Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.

Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

The wicked are always ungrateful.

Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

Transient guests are we.

Master the art of finding something to celebrate about in each moment and life will become an exciting adventure.

Sometimes coping with the difficulties success brings is much more difficult than coping with the difficulties failure brings!

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

Why shouldn't a car key look like a car?

I can't bare you when you're not amusing.

I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.

Extremes are ever neighbors; 'tis a step from one to the other.

As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit.

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.