Over-niceness may be under-niceness.

The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.