If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.

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?

The ultimate luxury is to reread: to revisit a book to see how time has treated it, how memory has distorted it, or how my own passing years have cast a new light on it.

You've just got to follow your own path. You have to trust your heart and you have to listen to the warnings.

This is very clever. They have created a system to cheat.

I had that trapped feeling, like some sort of a poor insect that you've put inside a downturned glass, and it tries to climb up the sides, and it can't, and it can't, and it can't.

There is soul music, soul food, and soul love.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

The entrepreneurs that really make it are the ones that start with an idea but are ready to change it at a moment's notice.

I think the biggest shift has been in realizing how much more we are creating our life than we realize. That was sort of the epiphany to me.

I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.

It's great to represent things that are not represented.