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

in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.

To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.