There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest pleasures one has.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

We are a race of women that of old knew no fear and feared no death, and lived great lives and hoped great hopes; and if today some of us have fallen on evil and degenerate times, there moves in us yet the throb of the old blood.