Let freedom never perish in your hands.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Knowledge, like money and muck (manure), serves us best when spread evenly.

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

As a former ballerina, I can't put down Maggie Shipstead's new book, Astonish Me.

Everyone is concerned about his niche, his name, and wants to adapt the concept to so-called national characteristics. But at the end of the day, it's all the same.

Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.

I knew the poor, I knew the hideous death they die, when famine lays its bleak hand on the door; I knew the rich, sated with merriment, who yet are sad.

This woman was so cross-eyed. She can go to a tennis match and never move her head.

The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.

If we do the right thing with right intent that is actually our success.

Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.