You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

Nothing is our except time.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer.

It's easy to be disciplined when you have no freedoms.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

Clearly, high energy prices will have a large negative effect on the California economy and could possibly drag the rest of the nation into a recession.

I don't want to be a queen. I want to be the queen.

It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.

I was adopted when I was a baby. My mother carried me for nine months and she held me for one hour, and didn't see me again.

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.