what is unreasonable is irrefutable.

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

Laughter is always fatal to feeling.

There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.

politicians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for how we are governed.. And what will be the end of such ways? I will tell you. We shall have a Democracy that will be the reign of those who know the least and talk the loudest.