I experienced the discomfort of those who have moved mentally, but are still clamped, physically, to the places they have moved from.

Silence always gives consent.

Nothing is bad which does not harm either you or someone else.

No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of intervening seas, points forever toward the north. Pitiful indeed is she who fails to be a magnet and blindly becomes a chain.

Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.

If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.

Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.