It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Solitude begets whimsies.

Think while walking, walk while thinking, and let writing be but the light pause, as the body on a walk rests in contemplation of wide open spaces.

For some women, they need a man. For others, men need them.

There's always another side to the story but nothing compares to the glory of our own short sighted, one sided glorious view

A beautiful face is temporary

Girl, he wants to dip you in Frosted Flakes and have you for breakfast. That's his favorite cereal, by the way." I...had no words for that.

Men speake of the faire, as things went with them there.

I'm a big Marty Robbins fan. I love Marty Robbins. Of course, everybody does. That's not such a big shock.

that's as nutty as squirrel turds

What if a tree fell in the forest and no one knew it's biological name? Did it exist?

Nature will never confront you with a problem you can't solve. You already have the answer, that is why the question appears before you.