Easy come, easy go... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.

Lifeless life is the very thing Jesus came to rescue us from.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

A road-wise folkie with a bluesy soul reminiscent of early Michelle Shocked, Melissa Crabtree is an original storyteller and performer not to be missed.

We want the safety of yesterday even though we know it's not where God would have us.

I just want to keep being creative, and I want to feel inspired by a role, and I want to keep acting.

Books crowbar the world open for you.

Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.

If Russia's interests and security are threatened, Russia will resist. Everyone needs to know that.

Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound.