... what will not the heart endure ere it will voluntarily surrender the hoarded treasure of its love to the cold dictates of reason or the stern voice of duty!

Beware how you contradict prejudices, even knowing them to be such, for the generality of people are much more tenacious of their prejudices than of anything belonging to them.

But who can count the beatings of the lonely heart?

There's no doctor like meat and drink.

It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as that of pride.

I am for everything starting into full-blown perfection at once.

Oh, how easy it must be to be good when one has the power of doing good!

Poverty and contempt generally go hand-in-hand in this world.

...the synagogin', the tabernaclin', the psalmin', that goes on in this hoose, that's enough to break the spirits o' ony young creature.

The language of poetry is a language of deep intimacy that is meant to touch the human spirit and awaken it to the mystery of life, all life.

Do good, and you'll always be a constant reminder of your good-self.

Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon.

I chose to be a working wife and mother. Why should I compromise on either?

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden.

Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

Fear is the lock and laughter the key to your heart.

There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.

Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’ ‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.