Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.

the world is not always kind to a clever woman even when she is visibly known to be earning her own living. There are always spiteful tongues wagging in the secret corners and byways, ready to assert that her work is not her own and and that some man is in the background, helping to keep her!

in my opinion, the Divine is revealed to all men once at least in their lives.

It is not so difficult to win love as to keep it!

Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.

For though there never was so much reading matter put before the public, there was never less actual 'reading' in the truest and highest sense of the term than there is at present.

work is happiness. No one can take my work from me and therefore no one can take my happiness from me.