Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.

The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.

From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.