Love isn't who you can see yourself with, it's who you can't see yourself without.

'T is all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Go peddle your peppers elsewhere.

My worst day of vacation has always been better than my best day at work.

Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833 It is indeed a most lamentable consequence of the practice of regarding religion as a compilation of statutes, and not as an internal principle, that it soon comes to be considered as being conversant about external actions rather than about habits of mind. This sentiment sometimes has even the hardiness to insinuate and maintain itself under the guise of extraordinary concern for practical religion; but it soon discovers the falsehood of this pretension, and betrays its real nature. The expedient, indeed, of attaining to superiority in practice by not wasting any of the attention on the internal principles from which alone practice can flow, is about as reasonable, and will answer about as well, as the economy of an architect who should account it mere prodigality to expend any of his materials in laying foundation, from an idea that they might be more usefully applied to the raising of the superstructure. We know what would be the fate of such an edifice.

Drink to her that each loves best, And if you nurse a flame That's told but to her mutual breast, We will not ask her name.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going . . . let the other be where he may.

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

I take the challenge.

Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly well know whither, And rest I well know where.

Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.

They laboriously do nothing.

You know what a camera is? A mirror with memory.

Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

A smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Terrible is the temptation to be good.