Women are the true modelers of social order.

O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and clergy for not being martyrs and confessors. One can see, you know, very easily, how others ought to be martyrs.

I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn't exactly appreciated, at first.

Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary lines.

Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty!

Come down here once, and use your eyes, and you will know more than we can teach you.

It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.