Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

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.

She'd barely covered up her long, tan legs in a pair of shorts that made me want to go to church on Sunday just to thank God for creating her. - Beau

Did God make man in a breath of holy fire, or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire?

My dreams are my dress rehearsals for my future.

Each particle of matter is an immensity, each leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium.

I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.

In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

While so much is said of the inferior intellect of woman, it is by a strange absurdity conceded that very many eminent men owe their station in life to their mothers.

The worship of convention has never yet led to astonishment and a joyous leap in human potential.

A little style is a good thing, but you can’t trust a person who won’t be ugly in front of you.

Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment.