Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

He's off his rocker.

Fortune favors the brave.

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.

You may go to Carlisle's and to Almanac's too; And I'll give you my Head if you find such a Host, For Coffee, Tea, Chocolate, Butter, or Toast; How he welcomes at once all the World and his Wife, And how civil to Folks he ne'er saw in his Life.

And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

I've never professed to be anything but an average student.

Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.

Hope is the physician of each misery.

But come, I'll tell thee all my whole device When I am in my coach, which stays for us At the park gate; and therefore haste away, For we must measure twenty miles to-day.

As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses.

Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive.

Thus can the demigod Authority Make us pay down for our offense by weight The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will, On whom it will not, so: yet still 'tis just.

You can have all the intelligence in the world and don't have enough stamina. I have seen some very bright, bright women who do not have the stamina for husbands.

Her polish'd limbs, Veil'd in a simple robe, their best attire; Beyond the pomp of dress; for Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorn'd the most.

Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt.

Reason, Observation, and Experience -- the Holy Trinity of Science.

Since fear is mostly about ignorance, the best part is that it's as temporary as you choose.