Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.

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?

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love

It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree

Well, they say there is no real faith without doubt.

There are only two sides to this question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war only patriots and traitors.

When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.

Without deviance from normality, there can be no progress.

Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I yet hope to demonstrate that I am somebody who pays his debts-for example, to you.

Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it-the quality of temptation.

Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.

Wonderland was all we had in common, after all; Wonderland was what was denied the two of us. I had denied him his; he had denied me mine.