And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

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.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

Blameless people are always the most exasperating.

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.

There is no great person in history who gained mastery in a particular skill without first investing so much time into perfecting that skill.

The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the starsDid wander darkling in the eternal space.

I have always found the hardest mind to change is one that is religious.

People tethered to God by faith can let themselves go because they know they will get themselves back.

You cannot live when you are untouchable. Life is vulnerability.

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

I wouldn't include a piece in my collection that I wouldn't wear personally.

The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.

Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying.