Simplicity is the great friend to nature, and if I would be proud of anything in this silly world, it should be of this honest alliance.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Maybe I’ll never be able to do what I hope to, but at least I have hope.

I walked to the bookcase and examined the storybooks inside. As a girl, I had dreamed of having stacks of books at my disposal--stories to get lost in, other worlds to live in when mine was so bleak.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

You know, I've never shot a gun in a movie.

I like the concept of local education.

Simply because, one hand, there are the haters, The hater has power. All we can do is oppose it, or one becomes an accomplice.

I don’t believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence.

I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.

If the hill has its own name, then it's probably a pretty tough hill.

You can lie at a banquet but you have to be honest in the kitchen.