The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

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?

Life's managed, not cured.

Let thy power be a prayer.

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.

Don’t you just love children? If they’re not disappointing you, they’re dead.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.

You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.

I jerk off inside books, and give life to words, leaving concepts stuck together you've probably never heard

The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below them. That is why they are able to reign over all the mountain streams.

Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite away. Nothing can destroy the human heart.