It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.

All my life long I have been sensible of the injustice constantly done to women. Since I have had to fight the world single-handed, there has not been one day I have not smarted under the wrongs I have had to bear, because I was not only a woman, but a woman doing a man's work, without any man, husband, son, brother or friend, to stand at my side, and to see some semblance of justice done me. I cannot forget, for injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.