To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.

Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

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.