To the untrue man, the whole universe is false--it is impalpable--it shrinks to nothing within his grasp.

I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!

Do anything, save to lie down and die!

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.

The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.

There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.

...Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office.

Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.

The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread.

Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy.

Sometimes, the common reason for fights in a strong relationship is only the lack of having attention from the loving on

She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.

Jewish families encourage pursuit of wealth accumulation, high-income careers, and investing.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Without your right to have money that holds it's value, all else just fails because you don't have any real money.

Opened Christmas cards hum to me the hymn of love and teach me the sacrament of correspondence.

White folks still in the lead.

If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motor bike.

... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.