Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government.

He that drinks beer, thinks beer.

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

It lightens the stroke to draw near to Him who handles the rod.