Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Telling people Jesus loves them is a lie if you are not showing them!

To stay here and disobey God - I can't afford to take the consequence. I would rather go and obey God than to stay here and know that I disobeyed.

The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.

If you haven't met Satan recently, you are probably going his way!

Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?

She watched his lips forming the words, at the same time she heard them under her skin, under her winter coat, so near and full of warmth that she felt herself go hot.

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else.

The truth is women in the workplace don't have to fight nearly as hard for opportunities, or to dispel stereotypes, as they did before.

The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.