Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say

A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming.

the mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims ... to lace ourselves up in formulas of that sort is to repress all the divine promptings and inspirations that spring from growing insight and sympathy.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.

Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.