the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed in the light of their professed principles. ... They hardly know Christ was a Jew. And I find men, educated, supposing that Christ spoke Greek. To my feeling, this deadness to the history which has prepared half our world for us, this inability to find interest in any form of life that is not clad in the same coat-tails and flounces as our own, lies very close to the worst kind of irreligion.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

But certain winds will make men's temper bad.

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

Brothers are so unpleasant.

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.