Races, better than we, have leaned on her wavering promise, Having naught else but Hope.

Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

Into each life some rain must fall.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgement to be silent.

Can the cannibal speak in the name of those he ate?

It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.

On Becoming a 'Lady': What every mother wants her daughter to be.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

Dad’s especially need to remember that what they say to their daughters is written in Sharpie. It can’t be erased.

What might once have been called whining is now exalted as a process of asserting selfhood; self-absorption is regarded as a form of self-expression.

To dare to be aware of the facts of the universe in which we are existing calls for courage.