The ignorant ever shun and dread the gifted and enlightened.

The highest art is artlessness.

If you tell a woman she is beautiful, whisper it softly, for if the devil hears, he will echo it many times.

How much of love lies buried in dusty graves!

Real merit requires as much labor, to be placed in a true light, as humbug to be elevated to an unworthy eminence; only the success of the false is temporary, that of the true, immortal.

There are some professed Christians who would gladly burn their enemies, but yet who forgive them merely because it is heaping coals of fire on their heads.

To write for a living, according to Mr. Whipple, is coquetting with starvation.

Be courageous enough to forgive yourself

However benevolent men may be in their intentions, they cannot know what women want and what suits the necessities of women's lives as well as women know these things themselves.

She had a highly developed sense of humor which in some lights looked a bit like a sense of justice.

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.

I may not always be offered work, but I'll always have my family.

Woe to him who seeks to please rather than appall.

Our generation must fulfill the most noble of duties by ensuring the survival of future generations through the most basic of survival mechanisms - adaptation.

the snow ... came in thick tufts like new wool - washed before the weaver spins it.

Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?