But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so few vicissitudes that it could hardly have been written; for the happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
Breed is stronger than pasture.
Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.
It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.
There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.