All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.

The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.

I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.

How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.

Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.

I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.