"Our deeds are like children that are born to us;they live and act apart from our own will."

"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms."

"Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities."

"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone."

"Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it."

"It is never too late to become what we might have been."

"Man is a hating rather than a loving animal."

"When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you."

"She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel."

"Man goeth to his long home."

"If you believe that discrimination exists, it will."

"Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it to know yourself... know what you want."