For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.

Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.

It is often easier to justify one's self to others than to respond to the secret doubts that arise in one's own bosom.

Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.

I scarcely remember any writer who has ever ventured to say that the half of the work of the world is actually accomplished by women; and very few husbands who would be otherwise than greatly startled and amazed, if not indignant, if not derisive, at the suggestion of such an idea as that the work of their wives was equal to their own.

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.