The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured.

The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.

I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.

It is always legitimate to wish to rise above one's self, never above others.

I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.

We, women of one country, Will be too tender of those of another country To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

Life is like a cup of tea, the sugar is all at the bottom!

Much of the work of every life is done in the dark.

Don't you think that the best things are already in view?

A noble leader answers not to the trumpet calls of self promotion, but to the hushed whispers of necessity.

The prayer from the heart is a great power.

Frowning I playfully blow a fresh handful of bubbles at him as we walks back out, laughing over his shoulder at me.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty.

Earth ... God's golf ball.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.

In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you.

The road to a clinic goes through the pathologic museum and not through the apothecary's shop.