Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.

There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.

I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.

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

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.

But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope?