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

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

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman.

Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle.

Miracles is the sort of book that once you've read it you'll wonder where it's been all your life

A climb of eight hundred feet starts where the foot stands.

I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies.

Class isn't something you buy. Look at you ... you've got on a $500 suit and you're still a low life.

I'm obsessed with the human psyche. I want to understand. I want to ask myself if I have it inside me.

Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.

It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.