Women are the true modelers of social order.

Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.

It is always our treasure that the lightning strikes.

Gems, in fact, are a species of mineral flowers; they are the blossoms of the dark, hard mine; and what they want in perfume, they make up in durability.

There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.

There are in this world two kinds of natures, - those that have wings, and those that have feet, - the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.

The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.