It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.

Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.

It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.

It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the same love that we shall feel when we are angels.

Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us.

You should never live according to what you lack.

[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.

I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.

I try to remember that the job - as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy - of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it.

God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Benevolence today has become altogether too huge an undertaking to be conducted otherwise than on business lines.

No more chances, Golden Eyes. You’re mine and I’ll draw blood to enforce my claim.

And so with that spirit of confidence in our step and with that prayer in our heart, let us now quicken our pace to the victory that awaits us!

Men tighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding.