God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.

I definitely feel I do have God in my corner.

Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.

Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.