If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.

Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.

Omissions are not accidents.

The mind is an enchanting thing is an enchanted thing, like the glaze on a katydid-wing subdivided by sun till the nettings are legion.

We don't like flowers that do not wilt; they must die, and nine she-camel hairs aid memory.

I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.