The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind; with which no estate can be poor, without which all estates will be miserable.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.

My true love hath my heart, and I have his

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it

Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.

It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.

There is no such thing as a soulmate…and who would want there to be? I don’t want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn so

I choose to give truly of myself, entirely of myself, to the people I choose to do that with, and I can't do that with everyone.

Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.

The only mistake I ever made was not listening to my gut.

There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.

If you wish to be a mine of jewels, open the deep ocean within your heart.

Any country if you go really, really in depth somewhere, the human rights are not totally respected.

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.