There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.

I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is wrong, what is honourable and what is shameful. That's the steam that is to work the engines.

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.

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

Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.