My husband is not a Christian but is a religious man, I think.

I would rather marry a good man, a man of mind, with a hope and bright prospects ahead for position, fame and power than to marry all the houses, gold and bones in the world.

No one is loved as much as you by the people. Don't waste that power.

In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer.

I am convinced, the longer I live, that life & its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed, are [as] when we are suffering greatly, we are inclined to suppose.

If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father.

No one has ever lived who knows better than you the proper placement of footfalls on treacherous paths.

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'

Mr. Lincoln had no hope, and no faith, in the usual acceptation of those words.

Beautiful, Glorious Scotland, has spoilt me for every other country.

It's your life, not your death, that defines you.

When we look back at life we realize no true moment defined us, but in fact the events leading up to that moment.

A lot of women I worked with didn't respect their clients. I had some clients who didn't respect me, but still you somehow made it work.

It's not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be - and so people here can coexist and live together.

The generation of women who came before us did much of our shouting. They laid the groundwork and now we can be calm and constant and steady.

In all true faith there is complete committal to God.

While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.

Fathers teach their best lessons to their children by the way they handle life when confronted with adversities.

Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart.

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