We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

...So let us welcome peaceful evening in.

An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.

Grief is itself a medicine.

How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

I was between them, and as the tension sparked, I felt like a small rodent trapped between mastodons.

If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan, we must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.

the Japanese school year begins in spring ... so mothers can send off their children as cherry blossoms fall from the branches.

When I went to my parents I was at the University of Wisconsin, and I just couldn't wait anymore to go be an actress.

Don't lean on your own understanding. If your trust in God is limited by your understanding of His ways, you will always have a limited trust.

For the love that is purest and sweetest Has a kiss of desire on the lips.

I think people are going to keep asking me about Macaulay. Some things change and some things don't.

You spend very little time in the present moment. Reality exists only in the present moment. Therefore you spend very little time in reality.

The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough.

I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.