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.

My greatest discovery has been my love of boredom and to get fun out of it.

Growing up, I was never the kind of girl to dream about wedding dresses and pretty houses.

If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf.

We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life.

Deliberation is not a particular type of speech, but a political act of collective decision-making in consideration of consequences.

I might wear a dinner jacket once a year to our Oscar party - that's a big thing - but I don't go to parties. I'm social but I'm not a socialite person.

You sleep with a man, that's your husband. So make sure before you lay down, you love him.

Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter.

Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.

I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal.