I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

A willing mind makes a hard journey easy.

Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.

Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.

It is true fortitude to stand firm against All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die In fear to suffer more calamity.

How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,it ravishes all senses.

Giants in Their promises, but those obtained, weak pigmies In their performance.

He is not valiant that dares lie; but he that boldly bears calamity.

Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee.

People are tired of being told that it's possible... It's time to show them how it can be possible. Leadership is demonstration.

Stop thinking that nobody is “good enough”.

We should all live as though someone is writing a book about us.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Inside skull vast as outside skull

I always stood for the elimination of conflict and wars, and any of those causes that ignite them.

Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.

Religon is misunderstood mythology

So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the books.

I'm a working actress able to make choices based on characters rather than what I 'should' do for my career.