What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.

There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.

Cupid "the little greatest god."

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

By writing much, one learns to write well.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.

You can measure the true strength of a man by how well he controls others, but you measure his true power by how well he controls himself

The increasingly thoughtful child can see the whole horribly upset world and would be understandably totally bewildered and deeply troubled by it

The law is an opinion with a gun.

I do not need a lot of money to be happy.

A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he's persuasive.

The simple power of prayer can save us all kinds of time and trouble if we will ask God to give us wisdom and discernment in our relationships.

Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.

I'm not too good when exposed to people

I lived my twenties in a very public manner and if anyone's twenties are documented it's not always going to be pretty.

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.