Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.

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

The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.

You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.