It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.

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.

So long as you are going in the right direction then the speed of your travel is unimportant.

Just the sensation of having one man touching her and the other watching made her shiver in awareness.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

I don't think anything lives up to what you envisioned.

I've always thought the most patriotic thing you could do in a democracy is to speak the truth as you see it. And that's what we're supposed to be about in America. Freedom of speech.

It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 40.

We do not create our destiny; we participate in its unfolding. Synchronicity works as a catalyst toward the working out of that destiny.

Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come.

The idea that we can take this lump of clay and mold it into a form of our choosing is absolutely ludicrous.

The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.