The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.

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?

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

That was the last cruel irony of Tobias’s life: that he doomed the woman he would have died to save.

I give myself permissionto enjoy the present moment.

You set goals in order to become the person it takes to achieve them

Your biggest asset is a positive attitude. That more than anything else determines your earnings.

Ultimately, the only way to make good friends is to become a good friend yourself. Good people gather around other good people.

Britain is a very small country with a very large press.

No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does

Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless.

Man is more social within than without.