Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.

We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Particular lies may speak a general truth.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.