The vow that binds too quickly snaps itself.

The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.

I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.

Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?

For man is man and master of his fate.

One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.

I am a part of all whom I have met.

Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point.

The greater the man the greater the courtesy.

It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.

O hard, when love and duty clash!

Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again.

I know my vision is impaired and cannot be trusted with even the simplest tasks, much less dating. Not that I´ve come within talon distance of a man.

Your mind is your master.

Eventually, I’ll grow sick and perish. Die on the floor, a young girl—who even when in the presence of company, still feels the loneliness that looms over her heart.

We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility.

The world is full of educated derelicts.

Community college is like a disco with books: "Here's ten dollars; let me get my learn on!"

The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it

The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow.

I want to be stereotyped. I want to be classified.