When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.

The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.

Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.

Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.

When things come to the worse they generally mend.

When things come to the worst they generally mend.

Smartness without wisdom is stupidity.

Dare to be more than ordinary... Dare to be extraordinary.

I long for some connection, to the real and those who love them, and hope that my fiction can reach beyond the veil, that I might touch someone and make them feel something…or something.

Regardless of the project, whenever you're working on something, the best you can hope for is to be around good people.

The American people don't want additional troops on the ground.

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough.

We cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with our beliefs.

The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing.

Democrats are talking about how Vernon [Jordan] cheats, I mean, he philanders, he's all over place, and they love him for it.

Somehow we all end up paying for what we do.