The nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird; but only the hen can line it with moss and down!

My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity.

Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all.

Love naturally reverses the idea of obedience, and causes the struggle between any two who truly love each other to be, not who shall command, but who shall yield.

I could discern clearly, even at that early age, the essential difference between people who are kind to dogs and people who really love them.

Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.

[Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue.

Science is but a mere heap of facts, not a golden chain of truths, if we refuse to link it to the throne of God.

It is a woman, and only a woman, — a woman all by herself, if she likes, and without any man to help her, — who can turn a house into a home.

He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity, and her servility will likewise at the same stroke do most to cure man of his brutality, his selfishness and his sensuality.

Pleasures of the mind have this advantage,--they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment.

Roark spoke quietly. He was the only man in the room who felt certain of his own words.

A woman needs a man like a tortoise needs a crah helmet.

Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.

Let me state here and now that the black woman in America can justly be described as a 'slave of a slave.

You’re playing the creepy vibe a little hard,” I said. “Might as well go for broke, put on a black top hat and pipe in some organ music.

Shooting stars are not stars at all. They re just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction. What we wish on when we see one is only a trail of debris.

The United States has to have the capability to deal with more than one enemy at one time and be able to confront them and win.

We become who we hang out with.

It doesn't matter how good your film is; if people don't know about it, they won't go and see it.

Returns decrease as motion increases.