Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Better a serpent than a stepmother!

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.

The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks.

Self-denial in the pursuit of purpose generates true pleasure while self-indulgence in the pursuit of pleasure generates true misery.

I also have a pair of ruby red slippers from the 'Wizard of Oz' and Dorothy's gingham dress...and on and on. I saved as much as I could and still do, because people are still interested in it.

Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries.

Nor can one word be chang'd but for a worse.

We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.

The history of struggle is rich with stories of heroes and heroines - some of them leaders, some of them followers, all of them deserve to be remembered.

The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable.

For there no yew nor cypress spread their glom But roses blossom'd each rustic tomb.