Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation.

People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.

I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.

But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.

A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.

It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.