There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.

... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.

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.

It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.

For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal-this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness than their moving with kindred natures in the same embroiled medium, the same troublous fitfully-illuminated life.

When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.