There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly

I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me

The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return.

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

Steady work turns genius to a loom.