This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about.

If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly