Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate.

We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult.

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.

If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.

It's never too late to be who you were meant to be.