Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.

A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.

Quality, not quantity, is my measure.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.

Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.

Nothing is more honorable than a man or woman with a good reputation.

One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.

I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth.

Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.

They say I look and sound ugly but I don't be carin.

Approach each task in your life, no matter how simple or how complex, with power. Pick and choose things initially which are not impossible to succeed at. You need to develop the profile of a winner.

We will never build enough prisons to end our crime problem.

In this world, all power rests upon force.

That's how it is in heaven. It's just love, and no one forgets who they love.

Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own.