Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.

A slighted woman knows no bounds.

Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

No man is worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.

Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.

As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.

Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it.

Tho marriage be a lottery in which there are a wondrous many blanks, yet there is one inestimable lot in which the only heaven on earth is written.

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals

Every experience is a book to be written.

There is one difference between mind power and prayer, however, in that subscription to a specific religion, if at all, is not required.

Aggressiveness was a fundamental to success in airtoair combat and if you ever caught a fighter pilot in a defensive mood you had him licked before you started shooting.

It is the low drive for sameness and the hatred of otherness that characterizes all forms of leftism, which inevitably are totalitarian.

Fanciful spiritualizing, so far from yielding God's meaning, actually obscured it. The literal sense is itself the spiritual sense, coming from God and leading to Him.

Press on! Don't let yourselves be robbed of hope. Understood?

The school curriculum today, particularly American history, is a shame.

I don't think there is one size that fits all. I've been to too many meetings with journalists who spent the first 10 minutes of the meeting setting up iPad to look like a laptop.

Venice would be a fine city if it were only drained.