Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others retiring.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Solitude begets whimsies.

They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire!

I'll make my own magic'" - A.D.Y.Howle

For what shall we do when we wake one day to find we have lost touch with our heart and with it the very refuge where God’s presence resides? a

It's probably the best memory I have from my whole life. Just waiting to see some dolphins that never came.

There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.

I'm not interested in a persona.

Marina, as of the sea. You stick with Hector Ricardo. I'll take care of you;its in my name

I'm having the time of my life. I've never looked forward to going to work so much every day. I'm loving it; it's great. It's what I love to do and I wouldn't want to be doing anything else.

A bit of advice: never read a pop-up book about giraffes.

The thing that makes us know that this "latter rain" that is flooding the world with the glory of God is of the Lord, is because the devil is not in such business.