The immense success of our life is, I think, that our treasure is hid away; or rather in such common things that nothing can touch it.

If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one of the most beautiful of counties.

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre