To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.

In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.

It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.

I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.

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.

That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.