The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.

A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.

Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.

The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.