Give me, kind heaven, a private station, a mind serene for contemplation.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.

Fair is the marigold, for pottage meet.

Thus shadow owes its birth to light.

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.

Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

Envy is a kind of praise.

You can only be called a hypocrite if you judge others first.

And when a lady's in the case, You know, all other things give place.

Nor love, not honor, wealth nor power, can give the heart a cheerful hour when health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies.

From kings to cobblers 'tis the same; Bad servants wound their masters' fame.

A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.

More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.

Inspiration for my short stories grows from a psychic kernel, a vision of some sort or an eccentric, colorful dream.

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat.

Assume nothing. Inside every dumb blond there may be a very smart brunette.

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

If conduct is intentional, it could subject some of the criminal liability.

Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.