How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,it ravishes all senses.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

A willing mind makes a hard journey easy.

Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.

Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.

It is true fortitude to stand firm against All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die In fear to suffer more calamity.

Giants in Their promises, but those obtained, weak pigmies In their performance.

He is not valiant that dares lie; but he that boldly bears calamity.

Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee.

We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness.

God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications.

La mort n'est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.

Life is not fair... Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.

I've been away and haven't seen my family. I speak to them every day though. I miss them, but I love traveling.

The Civil War ravaged the Southern states, while leaving the North untouched.

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

This imperiousness which aids us in all things is merely a fitting authority which comes from superior spirit.

Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.

I would like to say that I am not an apostle of the Muslim religion.

Gotta watch out for directors.