Quotes

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”

“I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.”

“Better to be without logic than without feeling.”

“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.”

“The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter – often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter – in the eye.”

“I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.”

“Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel.”

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”

“The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.”