Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.

Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

And tears are heard within the harp I touch.

What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

There is no lighter burden nor more agreeable than a pen.

Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.

Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.

Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

Even as a coin attains its full value when it is spent, so life attains its supreme value when one knows how to forfeit it with grace when the time comes.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Grace is given of god, but knowledge is bought in the market.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.

I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

To hit bottom is to fall from grace.

Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.

But Patsy, she was a great, great girl. And Brenda Lee is a wonderful person, and her mama Grace. I've known those folks for years and years and years.

Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.

Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin.

We went on stage with the Jefferson Airplane, Jim started singing with Grace Slick and hugging her. Then he danced off the stage, went back into the dressing room and passed out cold.

Believe in God, for with the grace of God the American rockets will go astray and we will be saved.

Great comforts do, indeed, bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree of it; the weak child is oftener in the lap than the strong one.

The grace of God is courtesy.