[On her recently widowed father's much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I assure you he declines its moods and tenses inimitably.

Girls are taught to seem, to appear - not to be and do.

Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed.

Is not sorrow, all sorrow, selfish?

They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.

If we can spend more time uprooting vices and rooting virtues, our world will be safer and better.

What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?

We reject any idea that one race of people is in any way better than another.

I started to do everything I could to succeed, but found that the more successful I became, the less people liked me.

There is no erratic power or action or motion in creatures but they are governed by God's secret plan in such a way that nothing happens except what is knowingly and willingly decreed by Him.

Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.

When I look into the crowd, I see young and old, black and white - it's amazing that I'm able to connect with so many different kinds of people.

I am an example of a person who got zeroed into a philosophy early.