The horrible ugliness of this exposure of a sick and guilty heart to the very eye that would gloat over it!

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

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

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.

Judge no one but love every one.

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

Lord, let me find my life in thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain.

There is no need to argue if an experiment can be made.

People would look at me weird. You know, like, 'Why is this guy's hands always in his pockets?' But I was embarrassed by the size of my hands.

Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.

A man leads with his mind while a woman leads with her heart.

There is a tendency for people to say evolution is only a theory. That is inappropriate.

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.