“What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.”

If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.

The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.

One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people’s alone.

Friendships are discovered rather than made.

There are in this world two kinds of natures, – those that have wings, and those that have feet, – the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.

It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.

Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.

General rules will bear hard on particular cases.

Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.

There is more done with pens than with swords.

People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.

When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?

The circle of life is crazy.

The circle of life is crazy.

The best way to increase your focus is to decrease your circle.

When you changed your circle and the people you are surrounded with, everything started to change for you and you propelled yourself to success.  

Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.

Everything comes in circles. The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It’s all been done before, and will be again.

Trust is hard to come by. That’s why my circle is small and tight. I’m kind of funny about making new friends.

It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.