Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.

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

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

Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.

We're allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse.

I think one of the things about parents and children is there are the accidents of temperament. There's no guarantee that just because you are related you'll have anything in common.

Never let money get in the way of an idea

Lawyers like to leave no stone unturned, provided they can charge by the stone.

We must work toward the elimination of all nuclear weapons, and an end to policies which cause this country to move toward the weaponization of space.

I love working with both the old and the super young. Each offers different things that I can learn from and build off.

I'm a huge fan of just keeping a healthy lifestyle. For your body but for your mind, also.

There hasn't been anybody else write a Constitution like Madison. There just hasn't been, because that person hasn't existed anywhere but here.

Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.