Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.

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

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 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.

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

Pity is like eating mustard without beef.

A person does not hear sound only through the ears; he hears sound through every pore of his body. It permeates the entire being.

How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?

Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil.

We are all crazy when we are angry.

Not taking a risk is a risk. That's how I see it.

I feel occasionally my skull will crack, fatigue is continuous - I only go from less exhausted to more exhausted & back again.

Smile doesn't mean that someone is happy. Sometimes it just means that you're strong.