...beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

If the town were a black hole, I was the helpless star being sucked into oblivion. It was an oblivion I craved.

Because all the words in the world won't do much good if they're just rattling around in your head.

Personally, I think four is the perfect number of children for our particular family. Four is enough to create the frenzied cacophony that my husband and I find so joyful.

Frequently people just vote for the party out of power because they're disappointed or angry at what is happening at the moment.

Why does it have to be hard in life? I was waiting all through life for love. When I finally found it, it is far far away from where I am.

When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success.

And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree.

Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.

The research on cyberspace is a quest for God. To be God. To be here and there.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.