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

There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don't understand; and the other is, to tell them what they're used to.

To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.