Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Conventionality is not morality.

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.

And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

Hey, people ... Do not complain about walking on a Monday if you stayed in folded arms on a Sunday.

Most people don't care who's in charge as long as someone is.

The cost of forgiveness is less than the price of bitterness

The clear, unmistakable sign of a bureaucrat is somebody who worries about whether he has a window.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

Christians aren't people who never sin or always do the right thing. We're people who live in continual repentance.

Gratitude BRINGS MORE to be grateful about, so today I make the point of expressing gratitude for everything in my LIFE!

We must have government, but we must watch them like a hawk.

True beauty is knowing who you are and what you want and never apologizing for it.

We rise to fortune by successive steps; we descend by only one.