When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.

Homeopathy - an invention of the Father of Lies! I have tried it and found it wanting. I would swallow their whole doles medicine chest for sixpence, and be sure of finding myself neither better nor worse for it.

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.

If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: Byron is dead!

I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.

The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt.

On earth the living have much to bear; the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best.