Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be so sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure as he is, he shall shoot higher than he who aims at a bush.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.

My true love hath my heart, and I have his

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it

Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.

The death of a beloved is an amputation.

The truth cannot be woven out of a string of lies.

To lie about a far country is easy

I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.

Simply because my people are hungry, that is no justification to give them poison, to give them genetically modified food that is intrinsically dangerous to their health.

Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.

The Spirit is speaking strongly to me for you to place a $50 offering on the altar, when you do, God will do a now miracle.

Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?

To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.

I have a ships bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.