Beauty can get a woman what she wants: love and money. But when beauty leaves you, so can the things it brought.
Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going, and going in that way too.
Good men need no recommendation and bad men it wouldn't help.
His idea of exercise is walking to his vitamins.
How use doth breed a habit in a man!
Flint must be an extremely wealthy town; I see that each of you bought two or three seats.
It's not worthy of human beings to give up.
It is the heart always that sees before the head can see.
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
The moment an individual can accept and forgive himself, even a little, is the moment in which he becomes to some degree lovable.
Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by himself.
My husband will never chase another woman. He's too fine, too decent, too old.
One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, whereas I should keep to the butcher's trade.
You can only predict things after they've happened.
My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnest, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.
Love is the only thing we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.