Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

And as the French we conquer'd once, Now give us laws for pantaloons, The length of breeches and the gathers Port-cannons, periwigs, and feathers.

Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist "Thou shalt not" is the beginning of wisdom. But the end of wisdom, the new law, is, "Thou shalt." To be Christian is to be old? Not a bit of it. To be Christian is to be reborn, and free, and unafraid, and immortally young.

I am giddy; expectation whirls me round. Th' imaginary relish is so sweet That it enchants my sense.

Like most endeavors, life is seriously over-advertised and under-funded.

Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.

Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time.

Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.

The bird That glads the night had cheer'd the listening groves with sweet complainings.

The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself.

DIPLOMACY, n. Lying in state, or the patriotic art of lying for one's country.

He that is rich is wise.

That government is best which governs least.

The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.