After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.

I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary

We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.