You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.

The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we have suffered.