That aspects are within us; and who seems Most kingly is the King.

Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there's life there's hope is a connviction not so entirely unknown to the "betrayed" as some amiable theorists would have us believe.

We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by; and in the same way people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all.

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.

The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die. (from "Neutral Tones")