I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!

When it rains it pours. Maybe the art of life is to convert tough times to great experiences: we can choose to hate the rain or dance in it.

Be the light that inspires others to dream.

Procrastination is a way of living in the past instead of the present moment.

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.

There is no such thing as an incurable disease, only incurable people.

All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute.

What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.

Whatever others think or do, lower not your standard of purity, morality and love of God.

You need only choose ... then keep choosing as many times as necessary. That is all you need do. And it is certainly something you can do. Then as you continue to choose, everything is yours.