She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.

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

Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen for them.

And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.

One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.