“How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!”

Each found her greatest safety in silence.

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.

He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

Success supposes endeavour.

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.

I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change.

The past is obdurate.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.

Together we can change the lives of many children.