In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.

My true love hath my heart, and I have his

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it

Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Watering a dead flower will not bring it back to life.

Sound an alarm! Advertising, not deals, builds brands.

We are all stronger, smarter, talented, beautiful, and more resilient than we were told.

I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body?

It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our last day.

The more attention you pay an enemy, the stronger you make him. Be attentive, but don't be paranoiac.

I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.

Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted.

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge