Complete self-devotion is woman's part.

In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals.

The perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in women.

Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.

Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.

At present, the novels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No class of works is more honorably distinguished for fine observation, by grace, by delicate wit, by pure moral feeling.

He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave.