She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky

He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

Dead men tell no tales.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

Fortune befriends the bold.

Don't start a fight if you can't duke it out. Either win or concede but whatever you do, don't have others fight for you.

Fortune is fickle and soon asks back what he has given.

Each person you interact with, is an entire universe unto themselves, a Divine Being, unspeakabley precious.

What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang?

Patriotism for the sake of is like choosing sides in a war based on the color of their uniforms.

If you want to get rid of counterfeit money, put it in the collection plate at church.

How awful is that hour when con, science stings.

I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich.

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.

The fountain of youth is like the monkeys paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.