It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.

To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.

I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about.

Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days.

Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.