You will not achieve happiness if you don't work hard; and it's a shame not to want to work hard.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Better a serpent than a stepmother!

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.

Is there such a thing as being too happy?

Of all the religions in the world, perhaps the religion of liberty is the only faith capable of purity.

His emotions are not for men, they are for his vision.

[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you

I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself.

Start seeing everything as God, But keep it a secret

I always enjoy myself fighting in Mississippi. I enjoy myself fighting anywhere.

America preaches integration and practices segregation.

You have to have a somewhat cold heart to be a writer.

In my almost ten years in the House of Representatives, I have voted consistently to allow companies to drill for oil and natural gas in environmentally friendly ways.