Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.

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.

Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him, And all their ministers attend on him.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Loki's green eyes flashed with anger and with admiration, for he loved a good trick as much as he hated being fooled.

Love is a great poet its resources are inexhaustible but if the end it has in view is not obtained it feels weary and remains silent.

Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.

When people get more frustrated by their indecision than by the situation that prompted it, clarity often follows.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

Charity is the drowning of justice in the craphole of mercy.

As a woman, especially when you have children, one gets so good at soldiering on - almost too good.

So much easier to aim for the smallest possible audience, not the largest, to build long-term value among a trusted, delighted tribe, to create work that matters and stands the test of time.