If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

Better be alone than in bad company.

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

Care and diligence bring luck.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

The more wit the less courage.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.

My life motto is 'Do my best, so that I can't blame myself for anything.'

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.

True change takes place in the imagination.

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.