I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.

The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless defiance into tremulous submission; it turns thoughtlessness into foresight, and yet stills all anxiety into calm content; it makes selfishness become self-denial, and gives even to hard vanity the glance of admiring love.

Hear Everything and judge for yourself

Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.