Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one

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?

To talk of a modern work of art enduring is sillier than talking of the eternal values of Standard Oil.

To be a climber one has to accept that gratification is rarely immediate.

My emotions are spiraling out of control. I never promised I would be logical at a time like this!

Each time a language dies, another flame goes out, another sound goes silent.

She always set three alarms for fear that the first employees to arrive would discover her sleeping - a Goldilocks without her bears

To see God everywhere is to see Him nowhere.

Unlike an external enemy, the inner enemy cannot regroup and launch a comeback once it has been destroyed from within.

Don't lose faith in what you are trying to do, even though you will get pummeled emotionally left and right. There are a lot of "nos" to any "yes." And that's OK.

Criminals have the same aspirations as everyone else. That's why they become criminals.

History after all is the true poetry.