Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.

Hear Everything and judge for yourself

You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.

If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, -- it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm.