“I speak the truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more as I grow older.”

“I honour all the wisdom keepers that dare to speak a truth much larger than the human reasoning mind can understand...”

“I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for there are those who care; I would be strong, for there is much to suffer;I would be brave, for there is much to dare.”

“The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't talk much.”

“I should like balls infinitely better,' she replied, 'if they were carried on in a different manner; but there is something insufferably tedious in the usual process of such a meeting. It would surely be much more rational if conversation instead of dancing were made the order of they day.''Much more rational, my dear Caroline, I dare say, but it would not be near so much like a ball.”

“My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.”