Love naturally reverses the idea of obedience, and causes the struggle between any two who truly love each other to be, not who shall command, but who shall yield.

My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity.

Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all.

I could discern clearly, even at that early age, the essential difference between people who are kind to dogs and people who really love them.

Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.

The nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird; but only the hen can line it with moss and down!

[Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue.

Science is but a mere heap of facts, not a golden chain of truths, if we refuse to link it to the throne of God.

It is a woman, and only a woman, — a woman all by herself, if she likes, and without any man to help her, — who can turn a house into a home.

He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity, and her servility will likewise at the same stroke do most to cure man of his brutality, his selfishness and his sensuality.

Pleasures of the mind have this advantage,--they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment.

The longer you live, the more mistakes you make. And the more sorrows you carry.

Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.

A scene can be created when people are coming together. Either to shop or to hang out.

On the basis of my historical experience, I fully believe that mathematics of the 25th century will be as different from that of today as the latter is from that of the 16th century.

Everybody, everybody wants to be loved

You either choose to view America as the shining city on the hill that inspires the best in all mankind, or you don't.

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

I dont wear makeup on the court, but I always wear sunblock. I love getting done up and wearing makeup away from the court though!

Everyone has been to school. Everyone has a sense of classroom dynamics and politics, regardless of subject matter. And if you've lived long enough, everyone hits a big life transition.

I've never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline