There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.

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

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

Love, like destiny, loves surprises.

Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living.

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.