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

Awful Night! Ancestral mystery of mysteries.

Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.

The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

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

... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.