Sensibility is the power of woman.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?

You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.

There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.

Why do we need to pray? Because the Christian life is a journey, and we need God’s strength and guidance along the way.

After the original rapture of conversion had settled in, (Bob) Dylan backed away from his obviously Christian lyrics and returned to his more metaphorical use of language.

Jest when we stopped wanting to kill ourselves, we started to die.

The hope is the best and the worst thing at the same time.

Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Mark Twain married the daughter of one of New York State's leading Abolitionists, Jervis Langdon, who helped Frederick Douglass who became the great Negro leader to escape from slavery.

When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.

I did a club one night - the speakers were old as hell. My jokes were coming out in black and white.

The State Department said the countries that are most stealing our best ideas also are our best allies.