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

the beginning of my history is - love. It is the beginning of every man and every woman's history, if they are only frank enough to admit it.

The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on the teaching of St. Paul, who was not divine, is a question to me of much perplexity.

Flowers are like visible messages from God.

Pleasure for others is the only pleasure possible to me. I assure you I'm quite selfish! - I'm greedy for the happiness of those I love - and if they can't or won't be happy I'm perfectly miserable.

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!