It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.

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.

Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart

One life per year. It seemed so moderate a price... until you looked back and realized you could fill a movie theater with your victims.

The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action.

Oh that I may never loiter on my heavenly journey.

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.

Any central bank should only be in charge of liquidity. Solvency is a matter for the treasury.

It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power.

But in spite of the obvious effectiveness of mathematics in physics, I have never heard of a good a prioriargument that the world must be organised to mathematical principles.

It's that first step-getting out the door-that's the toughest. If you can do that, you've already won.

When will rappers & skanks realize God's not the only one who gets to judge them on their actions? We do too. It's called CONSEQUENCES.