When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Patience is the art of hoping.

The lazy are always wanting to do something.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

Prosperity makes few friends.

Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.

He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.

There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.

The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.

The American dream is about freedom.

Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.

To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.

A wife is not a man's shadow or subordinate, but his other self, his "helper," in a sense which no other creature on earth can be.

Do good when you can, and charge when you think they will stand it.

Don’t worry. I won’t send you off without warning. Just stand there and be awed by my beauty. It’s the safest mode around me. (Savitar)

Of the five rights listed in the First Amendment. - religion, speech, press, assembly, petition - the very first right protected is freely exercising our religion.

It's not hard to draw from within yourself to play someone protective of her daughter. I have animals and I'm a daughter, sister, wife, aunt and friend, and I can be fiercely protective.

When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.