Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.

If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

Necessity is the spur of genius.

No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.