"The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect."

"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once."

"A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents."

"Robspierre replied softly, 'the question is to know where is the enemy.' 'He is out there, and I have hunted him,' said Danton. 'He is within, and I am watching him,' said Robespierre."

"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."

"Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love replused - but it returneth"

"We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome."

"Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man."

"Self-trust is the essence of heroism"

"There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day."