A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

That aspects are within us; and who seems Most kingly is the King.

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman!

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.

I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-""It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.

Speak gently but look out for your rights.

Aren't maids the ultimate art critics?

The Internal Revenue Service wants a record of how you spend your money, but that is nothing compared to the books God is keeping.

There's a numbness in our culture to the continuing horrors of genocide.

I can hypnotize rabbits.

I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book.

Salvation, O the joyful sound! 'Tis pleasure to our ears; A sov'reign balm for ev'ry wound, A cordial for our fears.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

I wrote a number of pieces in the year 1966 that were so bad that, although I'm a great collector of my own pieces, I have never collected them.