The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Patience is the art of hoping.

The lazy are always wanting to do something.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

Prosperity makes few friends.

Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.

He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.

There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.

The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.

The dead never go to their own funeral.

Life is obsession and so is reading :D

But in her heart she truly believed she was a better lady than Lady Dorothea ever was. Was it wrong to think she was nobler in her heart than the true nobleman's daughter?

Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and its habitat.

My philosophy has always been to stand with all countries and all humanity.

The trouble with happiness is people don't practice it.

I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.

I think, writing-wise, I am probably more of a quilter than a weaver because I just get a little scrap here and a little scrap there and sew them together.

Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.

We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder lean.