I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not.

Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.

From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains; These first induce him the vile trash to try, Then lend his name, that other men may buy.

Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.

Oh, rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain; Who from the dark and doubtful love to run, And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun.

An infatuated man is not only foolish, but wild.

Void of all honor, avaricious, rash, The daring tribe compound their boasted trash Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill; All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill.

Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I've done it from my youth.

In idle wishes, fools supinely stay. Be there a will and wisdom finds a way.

The coward never on himself relies, But to an equal for assistance flies.

A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.

If you create an environment of conflicts, I don’t think you will enjoy peace yourself.

A happy person is not without sorrow or grief. Happiness is the acceptance of pain, not the lack of it.

River water and talent can’t be stopped forever.

A believer may pass through much affliction, and yet secure very little blessing from it all. Abiding in Christ is the secret of securing all that the Father meant the chastisement to bring us.

I am tired of spending a little bit of money in a lot of pieces because they keep on falling apart.

You don't get a life until you make one worth living.

What we Republicans should stand for is growth in the economy. We ought to make the pie higher.

Oh let us continually keep faith in exercise, till it be entirely swallowed up in the boundless ocean of beatific vision.

It is a rare woman who can overcome her desire to remain pretty and allow herself to become beautiful.

How come "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?