I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

... as usual I am suffering much from doubt as to the worth of what I am doing and fear lest I may not be able to complete it so as to make it a contribution to literature and not a mere addition to the heap of books.

The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity.

Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?

Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.

'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.