"Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship."

"In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth."

"Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back onitself recoils."

"Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men."

"At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river."

"Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long."

"If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either."

"I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line."