There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.

You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages.

That cold accretion called the world, so terrible in the mass, is so non formidable, even pitiable, in its units.

Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.

Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.

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

Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?