As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.

There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.

Cupid "the little greatest god."

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

By writing much, one learns to write well.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.

We must not be defined by what we do, but we must be what and who we are, then only happen to do what we do!

An anchor should be someone who is personally open and willing to communicate.

Careful, Sandi. You're about to let your bulldog mouth overload your bird-dog bite.

Every hill becomes a mountain when one has to climb up it.

The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the

Who looks in the sun will see no light else; but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but the centre is ever the same, and the wise will regard only the seasons of the soul.

Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.

Without followers, evil cannot spread.

[To Bonaparte, when asked why she meddled in politics:] Sire, when women have their heads cut off, it is but just they should know the reason.

Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.