The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

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?

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

Growing up I often wondered how the world would be today if, since the beginning of human life, every person acted as I did.

Don't fall asleep yet. Contrary to popular belief, that's not where dreams get accomplished.

What's this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?

Since the world began, God has raised up prophets who speak the will of heaven to the people of their times. It is our responsibility to listen and then apply the messages the Lord provides for us.

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

You don't have to do those things. You don't have to become a hero, Seth.

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.