Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being.

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!

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

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?

If you do not chase success, you will be overtaken by failure.

It feels as though it were just yesterday Grandfather exited my life like a bullet, leaving a bleeding hole behind.

America wants its respect.

The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.

It is a far greater happiness to obey no one than to rule the whole world.

If this is the information age, what are we so well-informed about?

The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and impoverished taste.

To be at other people's orders brings out all the bad in me.

I’m trying to tell people that I am happy the way I am. But why do people have to call my happiness a failure?

Hardworking families can no longer afford to wait for a Congress that gridlocks on ideology. I look forward to working with my colleagues from both parties to get things done.