She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.

I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!

Do anything, save to lie down and die!

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.

The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.

There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.

...Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office.

Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.

The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread.

Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue native to the human heart, wherever educated.

Self-confidence depends on environment: one does not speak in the same tone in the drawing room than in the kitchen.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

I'm not going to read any of these magazines. I mean, because they've just got too much to lose by printing the truth. You know that.

Focus and having energy is the most important goal when choosing my activities and how I treat myself.

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.

Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production.

You do look at a lot of movies and many characters seem to be interchangeable.

I get really saucy after a few drinks. Sexy rude, not obnoxious rude.

To cowards what advice shall I offer? - nothing whatsoever have I to say.

God has given us the fascination and mystery of irrational numbers, as one aspect of a rich world