This is to be along; this, this is solitude!
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.
But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.
Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never
We of the craft are all crazy.