The only thing one can do one day one did not do the day before is to die.

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient when there be no redress.

I never invite idiots to my house.

it is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it.

Any wife will save you from purgatory, and a diligent one will secure heaven to you.

The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.

The outrages of the powerful, the insolence of the rich, scorn of the proud, and malice of the uncharitable, all beating against the broken spirit of the unfortunate.

I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire.

Not to be miserable is all some people are capable of.

Few people know anything of the English history but what they learn from Shakespear; for our story is rather a tissue of personal adventures and catastrophes than a series of political events.

You will find many a creature by earth, air, and water, that is more beautiful than a woman.

The Kingdom of God is, in reality, the mental kingdom of a conscientious, compassionate and courageous human.

CHERISH a heart like you'd carry an egg, cause when it drops it becomes pieces of shell, never to be MENDED

Whatever doesn't destroy you, makes you stronger. Hardships have a way of toughening us, if they don't kill us.

When you deprive yourself of happiness, you deprive yourself your sense of being.

When things get tough, you should seek out someone like a coach or friend or family member to talk things through with.

My dream role would be anything where I get to tap-dance.

Are we ready to be Christians full-time, showing our commitment by word and deed?

You can't make everyone happy right away, you can't figure out what people want you to do, you just have to do what you want to do and hope it works out.

It's an extremely good thing that money sometimes changes hands.

You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.