So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak... I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

The Human Self is the only friend and savior to all humanity.

Art symbolizes our perfect ability in the matter of enriching the reality!

If your children know who God is they will know who they are, regardless of where you or they call home.

God’s love is unchangeable

Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be.

I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.

Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.

We Robertses have too many teeth for our mouths.

You don’t share me. You own me.

Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.