The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.
The real, in all this efforts, is that we climb just for climbing.
What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence?
You are one of the forces of nature.
Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little each day; they are like vases with a narrow neck; you may pour little or pour much, but much will not enter at a time.
Our esteem is apt to be given where we know the least.