Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Better a serpent than a stepmother!

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.

Lord gives even more grace, so you can endure the test of time.

Conscience is but a word that cowards use Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning.

The architecture of the song, if it's built properly, can withstand all kinds of things.

Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be.

Buy less, buy better, and really wear it.

I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.

The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious beliefs than they are dependent upon our thoughts about geometry or physics!