What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?

Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.

She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.

A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming.