Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.

I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing.

I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.