Why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage.

It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed - who cannot speak for themselves.

For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must eat, and drink, and sleep, and wake again, - still bargain, buy, sell, ask and answer questions, - pursue, in short, a thousand shadows, though all interest in them be over; the cold, mechanical habit of living remaining, after all vital interest in it has fled.

If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.

God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.

Sensitive people never like the fatigue of justifying their instincts.