...I will not allow books to prove any thing.""But how shall we prove any thing?""We never shall.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

Time will explain.

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.

Part of my soul goes into each quote I write. A book of my quotes can be yours for just $19.99.

We should be authentic: the ‘real deal’. Neither a clone nor mimic be.

One who is seeking the truth sooner or later finds a woman.

I believe that life is given us so that we may grow in love and I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower.

The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent’s heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.

My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.

I think they were afraid that some of us would try to kill ourselves or something because they looked very tense and one of them kept touching his beard.

Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children with persons both older and younger than themselves.

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

I hate when new parents ask who the baby looks like. It was born 15 minutes ago, it looks like a potato