What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life.

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children, friends and countryare as nothing to that.

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.

Our lives are a picture of being overwhelmed by all kind of things going on in our lives and around us.

Those who work, knows the strength of labour.

Throughout human history, countries rise and fall. But not America--we continue to rise and rise, like dough, until Jesus bakes us in the fiery Afterscape of the Rapture.

You learn the value of water when the rivers are dry.You learn the value of light when the winters are prolonged.You learn the value of food when the fields are bare.

The strong were always eating the weak.

I won't be Cheeky and hypocritical... I will be real or nothing!

I challenge you to be dreamers I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better.

The lips of the righteous teach many, but fools die for want of wisdom.

We're in a different time right now, and I think we're ready to see a different type of female hero.

To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.