Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could.

The quality of a really virtuous person is to be unknown to people, or misunderstood by people, but not to be disappointed by this.

Leo Tolstoy

You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.

Robert Benchley

In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out.

Thomas Shepard

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things. I am tempted to think there are no little things.

Bruce Barton

Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom.

Mark Twain

I don't mind traveling that much when I can go somewhere and stay there for a while, but touring is different. You rarely see anything. You get there early in the morning and you're resting all day, and you go in and do a sound check, and you do the show, and then bam you're gone.

George Strait

I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.

John Henrik Clarke

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

Evelyn Underhill

One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness, two of barrenness, and three of sodomy.

Edward Dahlberg

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

Woodrow Wilson

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

Marcus Valerius Martial