When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.