💬 Quotes

"We be only womenhood. Just as I am an outcast again, ye be outcasts too."

"May I be left and forgotten in darkness as I deserve! Be inhibited from mentioning my name to any one, and my memory to die out of men's minds."

"That she would resolutely continue to live as heretofore, did not take away the sense of dread that the departed husband and father cast over her."

"The best way to get to know about things is to do them yourself."

"Father says that people who are poor are often much nicer than people who are rich, because they have to think about other things besides money."

"It is a very sad thing to have no mother; but it is even sadder, in some ways, to have a father who is so sad that he doesn't seem to notice anything you do."

"We wanted to restore the fallen fortunes of the House of Bastable. That is why we held a council."

"If you are going to be a hero, you must expect to be uncomfortable."

"It is very hard to do good when nobody wants you to do it."

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate:"

"When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, / I all alone beweep my outcast state,"

"When to the sessions of sweet silent thought / I summon up remembrance of things past,"

"Let me not to the marriage of true minds / Admit impediments. Love is not love / Which alters when it alteration finds,"

"My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; / Coral is far more red than her lips' red:"

"Two loves I have of comfort and despair, / Which like two spirits do suggest me still:"

"We can know only that we nothing know. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom."

"If everyone fought for their own convictions, there would be no war."

"The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience."

"Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal aims of humanity."

"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth."