Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place, and the thing is as good as done.

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?

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

Life is loves shrinewhen you're my valentine.

Man would have remained forever lost if God in His infinite mercy had not sent His Son to earth to bridge this gulf.

Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.

A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.

The new CIA torture report is 6 million pages long. It's almost as long as a George Clooney pre-nup.

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

I wish you were a mind-reader. I want you to know everything but I don't want to have to tell you. Because there are some things I don't want to say out loud.

[H]as the CDC ever published a story about the dangers of catching diseases when you sleep with illegal aliens?

Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.