Occupation is the best safeguard for women under all circumstances--mental or physical, or both. Cupid extinguishes his torch in the atmosphere of industry.

Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things

The heart has no wrinkles.

We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.

I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.

I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post.

... we ought to be astonished at nothing; for what do we not meet with in our journey through life?

We should not expect FRUIT from all trees, few gives SHADOW only

If your master demands loyalty, give him integrity. But if he demands integrity, give him loyalty.

Talking too much too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster.

We love, you know, children love the ingredients of poetry. And then they go into this tunnel that we call adolescence, and when they come out of it, they hate poetry.

The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.

I'm too diplomatic. I tend to edit my mind before I speak - it can be incredibly draining.

We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.

I wanted to undertake the challenge of daring to be great.

No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion.

Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.