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

The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.

My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if I had nothing to do with them.

You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.

There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

Awful Night! Ancestral mystery of mysteries.

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.