“Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age
“It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way
“The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes
“If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius
“It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution
“Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century
“All my life I still have found, and I will forget it never; every sorrow hath its bound, and no cross endures forever.
“The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for
“The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough
“Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent
“None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free