“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

“[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.”

“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves it is the woman only who can make it a torment. ”

“she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever”

“It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire... Woman is fine for her o...”

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”

“As spiritual searchers we need to become freer and freer of the attachment to our own smallness in which we get occupied with me-me-me. Pondering on large ideas or standing in front of things which...”

“Clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier.”

“Teaching English is (as professorial jobs go) unusually labor-intensive and draining. To do it well, you have to spend a lot of time coaching students individually on their writing and thinking. St...”

“I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft ...”

“Come on, its an American tradition. Apple soup? Moms homemade chicken pie?' She chuckled in spite of herself, then winced. 'Its apple pie and Moms homemade chicken soup. But you didnt do badly, for...”

“Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men or about women is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tel...”

“The pain you hide leaves the deepest scars.”

“Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.”

“Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.”