One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

The wicked are always ungrateful.

Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

If we are to climb that mountain, we had better find that molehill.

If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter.

I couldn’t help but notice how hot he looked tonight with his strong build lining his t-shirt. He should never cover his beauty with clothes and such things. - Ariel

Not that it was beautiful, but that I found some order there.

It was an instant weight lifted off my chest - both literally and figuratively.

To want to meet an author because you like his books is as ridiculous as wanting to meet the goose because you like pate de foie gras.

You can't get to courage without walking through vulnerability.

Let gratitude be awakened; let humility be deepened; let love be quickened.

I've always thought that problem-solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting.

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man and the animal creation.