It ever is the marked propensity of restless and aspiring minds to look into the stretch of dark futurity.

Good-morrow to thy sable beak, And glossy plumage, dark and sleek, Thy crimson moon and azure eye

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

If my heart were not light, I would die.

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!

The bliss even of a moment still is bliss.

My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate.

But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.

A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!

I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy.

The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.

I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.

America is a nation of immigrants, and we should treat those who come to our country with dignity and respect.

Nurturing has the ability to transform people's lives.

Some people will lie to you because they mean to. Others will do it to tell you what you want to hear.

I say yes to almost anything that comes my way.

God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that.

Unlike Ray Porter, his love is fearless and without reservation.

I worry about a lot of things, but I don’t worry about achievements. I worry primarily about whether there are nightclubs in Heaven.