The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

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.

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?

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.

Creativity rudely trespasses and tramples on accepted grounds.

May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.

Listen to your dreams. They are the whispers of your heart telling you all you'll ever need to be happy.

At the moment of birth you are the product of everything that has occurred in every lifetime you've had.

I find China such a fascinating and interesting country. Each time I come back something has changed and it's moved on in leaps and bounds.

Par toi tout le bonheur que m'offre l'avenir Est dans mon souvenir. Through you, all the happiness that the future offers Is in my memory.

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.

I'm not going to accept your challenge. There will be no duel." "Why not? Because I'm a woman?" "No, because I've seen the way you spinsters handle a pistol. You'd shoot me dead where I stood.