Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.

The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded.

Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.

She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowres That in the forrest grew.

So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.

I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.

Thankfulness is the tune of angels.

All for love, and nothing for reward.

Be bold, and everywhere be bold.

For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.

Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.

Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know.

It's wrong to anticipate evil.

Life is short, death is forever

Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers?

I ask for your forgiveness. I feel so miserable that it's difficult even to say sorry.

When the road you're on begins to crumble, forge ahead - better it crumble behind you than ahead of you.

You wake up one morning, those years are gone. There's a comfort in this fact perhaps. I want to think that there must be comfort in all facts we can't alter.

A true artist is driven by the never-ending desire to create.

To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone.

Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the roots their happiness, tranquillity, and prosperity.