What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.

I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not.

But, God knows best, I concluded.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.

There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.

Education is the means to end, not the end itself. Education should not become another status quo, or silo, or the end.

You're terribly selfish, you know. I've loved you so long, and it was never dear or precious to you. I might as well have not loved you at all.

The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.

How can I see the future if it didn't already exist?

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

If you look even at Pittsburgh, where I grew up, you've now replaced steel jobs with technology jobs, and they pay better.

You want a love story too? There's none to be had.

I grow beyond my family's limitations and live for myself. It is my turn now.

The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.