Bless thy simplicity, Tess

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

That aspects are within us; and who seems Most kingly is the King.

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman!

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

It was by faith, nothing wavering, that Joseph saw God our Eternal Father and Jesus Christ, His Son.

Even if all our senses fail to function − eyes turn blind and ears fail to listen − the heart will still listen, see and beat.

One picture is worth 1, 000 denials.

I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.

Freakishness could happen to anyone at any time.

You know, kids come to see me in the same way that their parents would go to see a rock concert.

He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.

To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.

Misfortune may become fortune through patience.

I just want to have a great relationship with my child and have a great family dynamic.