The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
My head rang like a gong.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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?
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.