Maids must be wives, and mothers, to fulfil Th' entire and holiest end of woman's being.

I want to do everything in the world that can be done.

[On disagreeing with her husband about his slave-holding:] I cannot give my conscience into the keeping of another human being or submit the actions dictated by my conscience to their will.

What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I charm the interval that lowers Between this time and that sweet time of grace?

When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence.

... it's always determined characters who make the greatest fools.

An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of nothing. The finest actor does not create, he is but a translator of another man's work.

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.

Carols of gladness ring from every tree.

They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it.

War isn't hell. War is war, and Hell is hell, and not the two, war is a lot worse.

If I do not personify God, you call me an atheist. But I do not personify God because I refuse to limit God to the boundaries of my imagination... or yours.

Everything has a hidden secret meaning to be revealed or to be sealed.

God delays but doesn't forget.

You show me a great program and I'll show you a passionate individual somewhere behind it.

One of the most lethal mistakes a public official can make is raising taxes and not paying your own.

Emotion is not opposed to reason. Emotions guide and manage thought in fundamental ways and complement the deficiencies of thinking.

It's like our country is being run by a bunch of bad alcoholic dads right now.

It's absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual.

There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.