Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.

I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.

But she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex in the light of animals whom it had pleased Heaven to make naturally troublesome, like bulls and turkey-cocks.

I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.

To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.