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Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State.

Each time you happen to me all over again.

There are probably as many different dialects for the heart as for the tongue, are there not?

we never could differ about the worth and comfort of domestic affection

A man's life does not develop rightly without it, and what is called an 'improvident marriage' often appears to me a noble, righteous, and prudent act.

Husband, lover, nurse--not one of these, has Robert been to me, but all three together.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another.

The simple rules are fearless faith, nonresistance and love!

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

My heart rebelled against God, who had taken from me mother, father, mistress, and friend.

Whatever moves me, whatever thrills me, is as a hand that touches me in the dark, and that touch is my reality.

With the dropping of a little word from another's hand into mine, a slight flutter of the fingers, began the intelligence, the joy, the fullness of my life.

The man who doubts it, can never have watched the first gleams of tenderness dawning in the clear eyes of one who loves; sunrise itself is a lesser marvel.

To love, to dream, to feel, to learn, to understand--all these are possible to me if only I may be relieved from willing.

What to the intellect is old and worn-out is perennially young and fresh to the heart; curiosity is insatiable, but love is never tired.

What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!

The most serious effect upon the poor comes when dependence upon the charitable society is substituted for the natural outgoing of human love and sympathy, which, happily, we all possess in some degree.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.

Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.

Work is love made visible.

You are good when you strive to give of yourself.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.