"Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster."

"All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation."

"Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?"

"Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love."

"We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything."

"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."

"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope."

"It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old."

"But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."

"There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury."

"Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar."

"Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness."

"When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion."

"All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other."

"In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations."

"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them."

"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone."

"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face."

"Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world."

"Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."

"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"

"And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment."

"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."

"Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins."

"A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other."

"What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?"

"I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth."

"When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity."

"The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history."

"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms."

"Our words have wings, but fly not where we would."

"The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory."

"No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference."

"But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with."

"Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive."

"The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance."

"He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow."

"The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions."

"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."

"The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world."

"I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men."

"In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness."

"Consequences are unpitying."

"More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us."

"Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking."

"The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice."

"The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities."

"I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best."

"Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things."

"The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best."