A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.

There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke.

There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration.

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

I shall never love anybody. I can't love people. I hate them.' 'The time will come, dear, the time will come.

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