How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Forgiveness is another way of saying, "I need to mind my own business.

I write because it's a beautiful habit

Children run everywhere for a reason--it's fun. Grown-ups can forget that sometimes.

Americans care more about the rights of animals than about what happens to us!

If you would move me with your preaching, or with your praying, or with your singing, first be moved yourself.

An infallible Remedy for the Tooth-ach, viz Wash the Root of an aching Tooth, in Elder Vinegar, and let it dry half an hour in the Sun; after which it will never ach more; Probatum est.

If people are foolish, they are bound to mix the personality and the Truth, and to build a temple around the personality and form a religion.

The iron ring is worn out by constant use. [Lat., Ferreus assiduo consumitur anulus usu.]

Leave this world a little better than you found it.

I have had my share of heartbreaks...Though I'm single and my career has taken prescedence, I'm ready to mingle now.