If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.

It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.

To prolong doubt was to prolong hope.

It is good to be attracted out of ourselves, to be forced to take a near view of the sufferings, the privations, the efforts, the difficulties of others.

I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you