Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.

We must not inquire too curiously into motives. they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light.

in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.

The perpetual mourner -- the grief that can never be healed -- is innocently enough felt to be wearisome by the rest of the world. And my sense of desolation increases. Each day seems a new beginning -- a new acquaintance with grief.

Expenditure--like ugliness and errors--becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by that wide difference which is manifest (in our own sensations) between ourselves and others.

Hear Everything and judge for yourself

Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so .