Be thankful that your lot has fallen on times when, though there may be many evil tongues and exasperated spirits, there are none who have fire and fagot at command.

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.

There’s no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.

The most meaningful endeavors are the ones that come without an end.

There is a great potential in everyone.

Isn’t this what we want to know about those whom we care about? What is it like, we wonder at each meeting, in shared meals and secrets and silences, with each touch and glance, to be you?

I've really come to realize you have to love yourself before you can expect someone else to.

If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.

Nobody said democracies supposed to be easy. It's hard. And in a big country like America, it probably should be hard.

Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die.

I enjoyed watching good-looking idiots looking at each other. A great spectator sport.