The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat ones self. All sin is easy after that. – Pearl Bailey
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. – Pearl Bailey
There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside. – Pearl Bailey
You cannot belong to anyone else until you belong to yourself. – Pearl Bailey
I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that…. I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature. – Abraham Cowley