The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot.