...such loss of faith is ever one of the saddest results of sin.

I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!

Do anything, save to lie down and die!

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.

The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.

There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.

...Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office.

Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.

The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Fear exists because we do not have faith.

A selfish person can still love someone else, can't they? Even when they've hurt them and let them down.

This planet is heaven but not for human beings.

Piece by piece living is hard to do. It may even feel like the hardest thing. But it has this going for it: you never need to know what it is you're carrying on your shoulders.

On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.

As a woman, you feel like you can change the person, but I don't think that's the way it works.

Excessive severity misses its own aim.

Mondays are just like Sam from Clarissa Explains it All. They just show up through the damn window whenever the hell they feel like it.

If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall.