Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

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.

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.

[On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.

A mad man is thinking because he is not thinking

Just when you may think the world has given up on you, take a look at your self, and remember the 1 person you can always turn to.

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

No need to feel brave or confident; just behave that way.

I guess I harboured hopes that things would happen more quickly, but I'm not disappointed.

Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble.

I believe now, as I alway have, that America's strength is in 'We the People.'

Being a father kind of gives you something more to play for.

When we're impatient with beginners around us, we would do well to sign up for a class in scuba diving, ballroom dancing or anything else totally brand-new for us.

In the face of terrorism, a united front is one of the strongest weapons.