It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.

Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.

What is better than to love and live with the loved? -- But that must sometimes bring us to live with the dead; and this too turns at last into a very tranquil and sweet tie, safe from change and injury.

A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.

Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation.

It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.