A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence.

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.