You feign guilt in order to justify yourself.

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

Extreme justice is often injustice.

Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.

Sun, I come to see you for the last time.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

How good is God! How sweet his yoke!

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.

In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.

If people can't stand being alone, they have no choice but to die

I'll never forget Hurricane Katrina - the mix of a natural and a man-made catastrophe that resulted in the death of over 1, 500 of our neighbors. Millions of folks were marked by the tragedy.

I'm very organised these days, and I keep my life in my handbag, like most women.

If we will only think, we shall begin to thank.

Husband and wife,--so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!

I prefer to stroll which has a buddy at nighttime, than by itself inside the light.

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.

Lines drawn into his face suggested he had spent many years thinking very hard over very difficult problems.

Like her father, he wasn't comfortable sharing his thoughts and feelings. She tried to explain that she needed to be closer to him, but it had never seemed to make a difference.