If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.
A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.
Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.
Fancy tortures more people than does reality
Woman already controls by not seeming to do so. Talk no more of her rights.
Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.