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.

People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

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

You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman!

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

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession