Order, thou eye of action.

She who means no mischief does it all.

Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.

The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake.

Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.

Don’t dare to dream big, just dream BIG!

The paper is patient, but the reader is not.

We don't seek anyone out. We just wait and hope that people who want the same things come along.

Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

I write every day weekdays for about 5 hours, mostly longhand on legal pads. It has gotten neither harder nor easier, sadly or happily.

I never want to play the same character twice. I like to do different roles. I have fun with that.

Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.