cultivate in young minds an equal love of the good, the beautiful and the absurd; most people's lives are too lead-colored to lose the smallest twinkle of light from a flash of nonsense.

I want to do everything in the world that can be done.

[On disagreeing with her husband about his slave-holding:] I cannot give my conscience into the keeping of another human being or submit the actions dictated by my conscience to their will.

What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I charm the interval that lowers Between this time and that sweet time of grace?

When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence.

... it's always determined characters who make the greatest fools.

An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of nothing. The finest actor does not create, he is but a translator of another man's work.

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.

Carols of gladness ring from every tree.

They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it.

A lot of people notice when you succeed they don’t see what it takes to get there.

Till the time you realize your conquest you already reach that stage when you start losing the grip.

Man has reached the moon, but twenty centuries ago a poet knew the enchantments that would make the moon come down to earth.

To the victor belong the responsibilities.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

For true downtime, I enjoy going for light runs, having drinks with friends and going to the movies with my husband.

We are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet.

When we honestly ask God the 'why' question, He doesn't give us answers as much as He gives us Himself.

The depth of a friendship - how much it means to us ... depends, at least in part, upon how many parts of ourselves a friend sees, shares and validates.

You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.