I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.

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?

He read vividly.

I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to.

Every dream has a price for its prize. I hope you are willing to pay for yours?

...we think so much about the present and so little about eternity that we turn eternity into nothing and nothing into eternity.

In the face of all that has happened, it feels good, really good, to just breathe for a moment.

Knowing that I make somebody's day better is all that matters at the end of the day.

I never want to know the range of my voice. It has to be impulsive, and I don't want to kill the mystery.

AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.

Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is the character of all life and being.

when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.