Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer

Never give nor take an excuse.

There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.

Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.