We love being in love, that's the truth on't.

Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart full of grateful reverence. I own to have said my grace at the table, and to have thanked Heaven for my English birthright, freely to partake of these beautiful books, and speak the truth I find there.

We pass by common objects or persons without noticing them; but the keen eye detects and notes types everywhere and among all classes.

Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

Who has not seen how women bully women? What tortures have men to endure compared to those daily repeated shafts of scorn and cruelty with which poor women are riddled by the tyrants of their sex?