A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

Great minds have purposes others have wishes.

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.

Which one of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and spend their days by choice in the thick of it.

I was tall from minute one. Always the tallest kid by a large margin. And my fantasy was to take up less space in the world.

But at the end of the day, there are some questions that have no answers, and then one answer that has no question: love rules the game. Every time. All the time. That’s what counts.

Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

I really never look at my health issues as 'Woe is me.' I've seen the reality of that. And it's not a pleasant thing.

For me he (Tendulkar) is one of the greatest cricketers

If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea.