We only begin to realize the value of our possessions when we commence to do good to others with them. No earthly investment pays so large an interest as charity.

There is a certain physiognomy in manners.

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.

Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach him concerning it.

The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the Unknown.

We must judge religious movements, not by the men who make them, but by the men they make.

Only the home can found a state.

We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.

It is the will to be grateful which constitutes gratitude.

The sense of duty pursues us ever.

Love is the magic gluethat holds us together!

All grief, anyone's grief...is the weight of a sleeping child.

My vigour vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

All relationships are living and alive and moving and becoming something.

Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.

Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original.

It hurts to look at the clouds, but it also helps, like most things that cause pain.

America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men.

I had always wanted to name a daughter Hailey, after Halley's comet from Once in a Lifetime.

Every citizen, scientists included, has some obligation to be involved in public affairs and politics.