whatever is morally wrong, is equally wrong in man and in woman and no virtue is to be cultivated in one sex, that is not equally required by the other.

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

I do not like new things of any kind, not even a new gown, far less a new acquaintance, therefore make as few as possible; one can but have one's heart and hands full, and mine are. I have love and work enough to last me the rest of my life.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.

Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.