A woman's rank Lies in the fulness of her womanhood: Therein alone she is royal.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our nobler nature, women have the amazing power to inspire us to live up to it.

I'm afraid of everything I don't know.

...once again I saw that incredulous question, that dawning hope: We are not alone, then? We have brothers in other places? We have friends we never knew?

You are tougher to kill than Steven Seagal...

Keeping Christ in Christmas" is like showing up at someone's house every year, insisting on a party they never planned and never agreed to.

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

And I fell violently on my face.

Learning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one.

Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another.

It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in silence in which at last we begin to hear what we are meant to be.