I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal.

I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

Conventionality is not morality.

But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

Who is the spring of living water? The Sovereign Lord.

Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

There's no way I can justify my salary level, but I'm learning to live with it.

I don't think a judge should be too much involved in outside activities.

You can't be somebody that you're not, because all of you shows up.

The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.

You can't help being young, but it's past time that you stopped being stupid.

In essence, we’re their servants who help them and who guard them from the public. (Leo) Oh gee, golly, goodie, Mr. Leo! Can I have my eyes gouged out, too? (Susan)

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.