Modesty is a diamond setting to female beauty.

I want to do everything in the world that can be done.

[On disagreeing with her husband about his slave-holding:] I cannot give my conscience into the keeping of another human being or submit the actions dictated by my conscience to their will.

What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I charm the interval that lowers Between this time and that sweet time of grace?

When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence.

... it's always determined characters who make the greatest fools.

An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of nothing. The finest actor does not create, he is but a translator of another man's work.

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.

Carols of gladness ring from every tree.

They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it.

The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

I never wear pants in my life. I never thought I'd say this, but I miss wearing pants. For the first time in my life, I miss my pants.

Comics were going down for the second time and here, all of a sudden, came this thing and for the next fifteen years, romance comics were about the top sellers in the field; they outsold everything.

When we work, we work. When we pray, God works.

I was never a kind of superhero fan much growing up, I'm not a kind of comic book kid.

We suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!

Happiness is not about the trophy, or the finish line. It's the journey. If you enjoy your journey, you can enjoy your life

I have a very family-like connection to hip-hop, which is why it frustrates me so much.